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Where there’s smoke: An investigation by anti-tobacco nonprofit the  Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids found companies were paying young influencers to secretly advertise cigarettes on social media. (Instagram)

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?

Claims about e-cigarettes are simply a smokescreen. Photo: Reuters/David Mercado

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.

US giant Philip Morris International, whose Marlboro brand was long associated with Ferrari, re-entered the sport last October. (Gallo Images)

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

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…