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New legislation seeks to stop tobacco companies from luring non-smoking teens into becoming addicted to their deadly products.
BIG TOBACCO

Big Tobacco’s profit addiction needs a quit plan

New legislation seeks to stop tobacco companies from luring non-smoking teens into becoming addicted to their deadly produc

  • Sam Filby & Corné van Walbeek
5 min read
Cheaper, untaxed cigarettes are disproportionately used by lower-income smokers, people with less formal education and heavier smokers — groups more vulnerable to both economic strain and health risks.
AARON MOTSOALEDI

Big Tobacco tries to stop SA’s anti-smoking Bill from becoming law

The Bill says the same rules should apply to vaping and traditional cigarettes and that both should be sold in plain packaging and banned in all public spaces

  • Christina Pitt
8 min read
Snuffed: Tobacco companies claim their smokeless nicotine chewing gum and similar products are a healthy alternative to smoking cigarettes – but they aren’t.
BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO

BAT and Philip Morris see rise in sale of smokeless products

But regardless of whether it is sniffed, sucked or chewed, the plant is still bad for people’s health

  • Anathi Madubela
4 min read
Tobacco farmers collect, transport and weave tobacco leaves at a tobacco planting and processing base in Mihe town, Qingzhou City, East China’s Shandong Province, Aug 24, 2022. Photo: Getty Images
BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION

The oldest trick in Big Tobacco’s playbook nearly derailed South Africa’s TB conference. Here’s why

The Foundation for Professional Development accepted a R2-million research grant from an organisation that’s regarded as a front for Philip Morris International

  • Joan Van Dyk
9 min read
ANTI SMOKING LEGISLATION

It’s time for a new conversation to reduce smoking rates

a smoke-free future is possible for our country, and the world

  • Staff Reporter
5 min read