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Tobacco firm Philip Morris calls for ban on cigarettes within decade
CEO Jacek Olczak says product should be treated like petrol cars, which will be outlawed from 2030
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Cigarette butts are polluting the ocean more than plastic straws — so why not ban these?
Cigarette butts, which easily find their way into the ocean, contain plastic in the filters that are not biodegradable.
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Cigarette butts causing ‘serious damage to environment’, study on impact to plant growth reveals
Cigarette butts are believed to be the most pervasive form of plastic pollution on the planet with trillions are discarded every year. Now new research has indicated they pose a significant risk to plant growth. Usually made of cellulose acetate fibre, a type of bioplastic, cigarette filters can take decades to break down. An estimated 4.5 trillion are littered each year.
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More adults wrongly think vaping is worse than cigarettes
The study, which appears in JAMA Network Open, finds the proportion of American adults who perceived e-cigarettes to be more harmful than cigarettes more than tripled from 2012 to 2017. During the same period, the percentage of US adults who perceived e-cigarettes to be equally as harmful as cigarettes also increased significantly.
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The Cigarette Company That Reinvented Television News
Television's first news anchorman and modern-style broadcast were brought to you by the fine people at Camel cigarettes.
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Critics say cigarette filters, a health and environmental scourge, must go
Cigarette butts have long been the single most collected item on the world’s beaches, with a total of more than 60 million collected over 32 years.
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E-cigarette rules should be relaxed, say MPs
Rules around e-cigarettes should be relaxed so they can be more widely used and accepted in society, says a report by a committee of MPs. Vaping is much less harmful than normal cigarettes and e-cigarettes should be made available on prescription to help more people quit smoking, it said. The report also calls on the government to consider their use in public places. There is no evidence e-cigarettes are a gateway into smoking for young people, Public Health England said.
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Alcohol, Tobacco Cause More Health Harm Than Illegal Drugs
It's smoking tobacco and drinking alcohol -- and not taking illegal drugs -- that pose the greatest risks to people's health, a new international study contends. Researchers found that alcohol and tobacco use combined cost more than a quarter of a billion disability-adjusted life-years worldwide, while illegal drugs only accounted for tens of millions in comparison. Disability-adjusted life-years is a measurement of overall disease burden, expressed as the number of years lost due to ill health, disability or early death.
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Forgotten poison: How cigarettes hurt the environment.
The growing and harvesting of tobacco poses health risks to tobacco workers and causes damage to the environment. But the production stage of cigarettes also causes widespread harm to both. It seems incredible that something as small as a cigarette butt can cause so much damage. And on its journey to its eventual demise, a cigarette butt can leave a treacherous wake. When left soaking in bodies of water like rivers, lakes and the ocean, cigarette butts produce substances called leachates, which creates what can only be called toxic sludge.
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Smoking rooms in bars and restaurants in the Netherlands banned
The Court of Appeal has extended the ban on smoking in indoor public places to smoking rooms in bars and restaurants in the Netherlands.
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Big tobacco forced to run a year of ads admitting smoking kills
Big tobacco is forced to run advertisements saying that smoking kills, and cigarettes are intentionally designed to get people addicted. The companies will also pay for television ads running between 30 and 45 seconds with the same message to air on major television networks at prime time, five nights a week for a year.
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Pope stubs out cigarettes sales in Vatican
Pope Francis has outlawed the sale of cigarettes at the Vatican in a bid to lead by example on healthy living. "The Holy Father has decided that the Vatican will cease to sell cigarettes to employees as of 2018," the Vatican said in a statement on Thursday. "The reason is very simple: the Holy See cannot contribute to an activity that clearly damages the health of people," it said, adding that smoking claims more than seven million lives every year, according to the World Health Organization.
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Thailand starts 90-day trial of cigarette ban, violators to face one year in jail | Coconuts Bangkok
Starting Feb. 1, smoking will be strictly banned on all Thai beaches, which means having even a quick ciggie could land you in a Thai prison for a year or fined up to THB100,000 ($US3,000). On Wednesday, Thailand launched a 90-day trial of the cigarette ban, prohibiting smoking on 24 beaches. During this three-month period, authorities will kick off a campaign to inform beachgoers of the law but won’t punish violators until the amnesty period ends, Prachachart reported.
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Japanese firm gives non-smokers extra six days holiday
A Japanese company is granting its non-smoking staff an additional six days of holiday a year to make up for the time off smokers take for cigarette breaks. Marketing firm Piala Inc introduced the new paid leave allowance in September after non-smokers complained they were working more than their colleagues who smoked.
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Potential deaths averted in USA by replacing cigarettes with e-cigarettes
Introduction US tobacco control policies to reduce cigarette use have been effective, but their impact has been relatively slow. This study considers a strategy of switching cigarette smokers to e-cigarette use (‘vaping’) in the USA to accelerate tobacco control progress.
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Smoking age would be raised to 21 under Andrew Forrest's new anti-cancer plan
Australians would be prohibited from buying cigarettes until age 21 under a new cancer-fighting plan developed by billionaire mining magnate Andrew Forrest. Mr Forrest and his wife Nicola are spearheading a major lobbying campaign to convince federal and state governments to raise the legal tobacco purchase age from 18 to 21 – a move they say would stop young people getting hooked, save lives and save government coffers up to $3.1 billion a year.
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Quit smoking campaign backs e-cigs
The annual Stoptober campaign in England is embracing e-cigarettes for the first time - in a sign vaping is being seen as the key to getting people to quit. Health experts have tended to shy away from explicitly promoting e-cigarettes. But the government campaign during October will feature vaping in its TV adverts for the first time. It comes after e-cigarettes proved the most popular tool for quitting during last year's campaign.
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Taking Up Smoking at the End of the World
In his late twenties, John Sherman finds a new fondness for cigarettes, despite everything he was ever taught about them.
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Cigarette butts that grow into plants, a couple’s journey to make smoking guilt free
Consider this. Over 4.5 trillion cigarette butts (about 6.9 billion pounds) litter the planet every year. Non-biodegradable cigarette filters are the biggest pollutants found in the ocean, far higher than plastic wrappers and beverage bottles, according to the Ocean Trash Index, Ocean Conservancy.
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Tobacco Shares Plunge After FDA Proposes Cut to Cigarette Nicotine
Eight years after it was given the power to meaningfully change smoking in America, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration moved to do so. On Friday, the FDA announced it would take advantage of powers in the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act -- a law enacted under a Democratic Congress and then-President Obama -- to cut the level of nicotine in cigarettes to nonaddictive levels.
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