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A new smoke signal: Is Big Tobacco using influencers to illegally punt new products?
Could companies’ wooing of social media influencers be just a clever ploy to get around the country’s tobacco advertising ban?
Smoke, spies, and lies: Big Tobacco gatecrashes public health lobby meeting
South Africa’s top public health experts sat down to discuss the safety of e-cigarettes. The verdict? Stay away.
No smoke without fire: Tobacco companies in quiet return to Formula One
Tobacco giants Philip Morris and British American Tobacco have formed partnerships with scientific research subsidiaries and Formula 1 teams
Transatlantic trade deal is too opaque
The paucity of available information has only served to confuse the issue further.
Law suits stoke anger over tobacco brands
The world’s biggest tobacco company have gone to court in order to prevent the Australian government from forcing them to sell in unbranded packets.
Malawi eyes China for tobacco earnings growth
Malawi is deepening trade and investment ties with China as part of a larger strategy to diversify its agriculture-dominated economy and increase its bargaining power in the…
Cigarette makers face flood of lawsuits
United States tobacco companies have been hit with thousands of new lawsuits in Florida from smokers and their families seeking compensation before Friday’s court-imposed…