CAR CHASE KILLS TWO IN KENTUCKY

Highlights:

•    Car chases are common in the US

•    It is always a risky undertaking

A police car chase that began in Cincinnati ended in Kentucky, but not before killing two innocent people. The investigating officers from t...

SINGAPORE CIGARETTE AND TOBACCO PACKAGING TO CHANGE WITH EFFECT FROM JULY 1

HIGHLIGHTS

• Singapore is gearing up to start a new packaging for cigar rete packets to prevent the smokers from buying it because of the health concern it raises
• Singapore to start punishing those who don’t follow the guidelines

UNITED KINGDOM: MENTHOL CIGARETTES TO BE BANNED FROM THIS MONTH

Highlights

• These new smoking laws are brought in to stop young people from smoking

• The ban which stems from EU Tobacco Product Directive Pass will ensure no flavoured cigarettes or any hand rolling tobacco is sold or purchased in the UK

The people in UK...

SMOKING MIGHT BE CAUSING A SEVERE MIGRAINE, CLAIMED RESEARCHERS

Highlights:

-Migraines are bad and affect a person’s social and personal life.

-Researchers have proved that there is a direct link between migraine and smoking.

-One must control the smoking habit in order to minimize migraine effects.

Use of e-cigarettes will cause lung disease

According to study conducted by new UC San Francisco research, E-cigarette use meaningfully increases an individual's risk of developing chronic lung diseases like asthma, bronchitis, emphysema or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The first longitudinal study linking e-cigarettes to resp...

Instagram post on e-cigarette promotion gets banned

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned British American Tobacco (BAT) and 3 other e-cigarette firms from promoting their vaping products on Public Instagram pages.

The accusation made against the companies was for promotion of nicotine-containing e-cigarettes and featuring...

Vaping to hit the lung disease chord hard

As we are advancing in our civilization the more threats we are facing to stay and survive the world. The number of diseases upon humans has increased manifold over the past couple of decades and now even the viruses are getting evolved faster than we can combat them.

A new issue for th...

How large tobacco in Canada has altered vaping: It felt like open season was proclaimed

For 20 years, Jason Kim smoked cigarettes, and when he lastly kicked the habit with the assistance of e-cigarettes, the businessman from Calgary chose to begin selling the equipment to other smokers attempting to leave. Tobacco companies like Imperial Tobacco Canada joined the vaping industry in Can...

Goods not bearing digital stamps will not be permissible into UAE

The Chairman of the Federal Tax Authority, Deputy Ruler of Dubai, Shaikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, and Minister of France has issued a decision where there will be the implementation of ‘making tobacco & tobacco products scheme’ on electrically heated cigarettes & water pipe tobacco as o...

Health Organizations gave a call on the termination of the Vice Media Partnership with the famous Philip Morris International to the Walt Disney

A coalition of eight national and international health organizations today urged The Walt Disney Company (Disney) to require its partner network, Vice, to terminate its relationship with Philip Morris International, the worlds largest manufacturer and seller of cigarettes. Disney, a prominent sta...

The Ban by FDA on the Menthol would most Likely result in the Survival of the Tobacco Industry Lawsuits

The research, conducted by the Rutgers School of Public Health Center for Tobacco Studies, anticipates arguments the tobacco industry is likely to use in a lawsuit challenging the FDA’s authority to ban menthol cigarettes.  It then weighs the strength of the scientific evidence justifying a menthol ...