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How digital marketing of legal but harmful products escalates health threats to the most vulnerable

The marketing of legal but harmful products – like alcohol and tobacco – has always targeted our emotional desires. But it has now moved to digital and social media, and this creates a heightened threat to public health because both the products and the platform target our neurological response.

The Conversation

£200,000 to stop 'illegal underage sales' of cigarettes and vapes in Nottingham

Sales of illegal tobacco are a 'growing problem'

Nottingham Post

Youth activists in Michigan urge statewide ban on flavored tobacco products

DETROIT — Kassie Weje, a 16-year-old junior at University High School in Ferndale, said her little sister was first exposed to other kids vaping at school when she was in fifth grade.

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People left divided by bum bag made from old tobacco packets - that costs £51

Prospective Depop shoppers were left divided over a series of bags made from old tobacco packets - but some dubbed the unusual garments 'environmentally friendly'

Daily Mirror

OPINION - Tech & Science Daily podcast: This is what a stressed plant sounds like

Scientists at Tel Aviv University in Israel have recorded ‘popping sounds’ from tomato and tobacco plants using microphones able to capture ultrasonic sounds between 20 and 250 kilohertz.

Evening Standard

B Corp Month marked in Bristol with giant animation on Tobacco Factory

Something Familiar, itself a B Corp and based in Tobacco Factory, has created a 10-minute animation which aims to shows the potential impact B Corporations can have

Birmingham Post

George Skelton: Newsom learned with oil bill: Working with lawmakers is key to passing laws

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom did something new — for him. He got aggressively engaged behind the scenes, negotiating with legislators. And it paid off.

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Should we ban the purchase of cigarettes for life? A US town is trying

Brookline, Massachusetts, is barring those born after 2000 from buying the products. Is a paternalistic approach always right?

The Guardian - US

Plants make noises when they are thirsty or stems are cut, research shows

Tomato and tobacco plants studied were found to emit high-frequency pops and clicks when stressed - and the noises could be detected from more than a metre away

Daily Mirror

Stressed plants 'scream,' and it sounds like popping bubble wrap

A study of tomato and tobacco plants suggests they emit ultrasonic popping sounds when dehydrated or physically damaged.

LiveScience

1 Stock That's Smoking the Market

The tobacco industry faces an inelastic demand for its products. Hence, given the current uncertain economic backdrop, quality tobacco stock British American Tobacco (BTI) might be a wise portfolio addition now, which looks well-positioned for resilient growth in the foreseeable future. Read on….

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A melting pot

Late in the morning, my caffeine-dependent friends and I made a pit stop at the newly opened Pua Tobacco Barn Café & Eatery to refuel before leaving the popular town of Pua, close to the Xienghone-Hongsa special economic zone between Nan and Laos.

Bangkok Post

The pervasive nature of junk food

Ultraprocessed foods are often noted as being an insidious mark on our food systems. How do we stop eating them?

Salon

The world is hooked on junk food: how big companies pull it off

It is almost impossible nowadays to listen to the radio, watch TV or scroll through social media without being exposed to an advertisement telling us that all we need for a little happiness and love is a sugary drink or a fast-food snack. There’s nothing that a tasty, affordable, ready-made…

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The Independent UK

Minnesota youth vaping trial of e-cigarette maker Juul opens

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison plans to lead the opening statements Tuesday in his state’s lawsuit against Juul Labs

The Independent UK

Minnesota suit against e-cigarette maker Juul goes to trial

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is slated to lead off opening statements expected Tuesday in his state’s lawsuit against Juul Labs

The Conversation

Profit versus health: 4 ways big global industries make people sick

It’s now more commonly known that alcohol and tobacco use make us ill. Less known is that just four industries account for at least one-third of global preventable deaths. These industries are: unhealthy processed food and drinks, fossil fuels, alcohol and tobacco. Collectively they cause 19 million deaths every year,…

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TGA review strengthens case for much tighter vape restrictions at the border

On Friday, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) updated its review of proposed reforms to the regulation of nicotine vaping products. It reported the federal government is now “actively considering” the TGA’s advice.

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Reason

The 5th Circuit Rebukes the FDA for Flouting the Law While Imposing a De Facto Ban on Flavored E-Cigarettes

The appeals court says regulators violated the Administrative Procedure Act when they tried to pull menthol vapes off the market.

The Times of India

Tobacco consumption is the leading cause of TB in India: Key signs to note

According to a study, India has the highest burden of TB globally, and the disease is responsible for killing about 480,000 people every year and more than 1400 every day in the country. WHO states that a total of 1.6 million people died from TB in 2021 (including 187 000…

Chronicle Live

Wallsend shop European Food Market ordered to close after crackdown on illegal tobacco sales

The store on High Street East was found to have been used for the sale of illicit cigarettes and hand rolling tobacco

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: Ken Wyatt warns Liberals on opposing voice; NSW election race wraps up; and ‘city killer’ asteroid to pass us by

Former minister for Indigenous Australians says Liberal opposition to voice could add to ‘global perception’ they are a ‘racist party’

The Guardian - AU

Tobacco-linked organisations and executives fail to declare interests to TGA vaping inquiry

Known links to tobacco multinationals and vaping lobby groups omitted in submissions to federal government consultation on reform

The Guardian - AU

Bruce Lehrmann told employer ‘false allegations’ had not hurt his ability to lobby effectively, documents show

List of ‘friendly’ journalists and other media personalities Lehrmann was ‘outraged’ at also among evidence submitted to the court

Fortune

The CSO of the world’s largest tobacco company doesn’t smoke. Can she get Philip Morris’s millions of customers to quit too?

PMI CSO Jennifer Motles thinks working on the inside is the best way to make change.

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