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New Zealand passes legislation banning cigarettes for future generations
New Zealand will phase in a near-total tobacco ban from next year. Legislation passed by parliament on Tuesday means that anyone born after 2008 will never be able to buy cigarettes or tobacco products. It will mean the number of people able to buy tobacco will shrink each year. By 2050, for example, 40-year-olds will be too young to buy cigarettes.
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Smoking in the United States has reached its lowest levels ever, with just 11% of people saying they now smoke cigarettes.
Good news, because smoking is the cause of about 20% of all cancers, and lung cancer is the leading cause of all cancer deaths.
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Long-Term Study Finds Cigarette Smoking Doubled Risk of Developing Heart Failure
The study found that participants who had stopped smoking retained a significantly increased risk of heart failure for decades after they’d stopped smoking.
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New Zealand to ban cigarettes for future generations
New Zealand will ban the sale of tobacco to its next generation, in a bid to eventually phase out smoking. Anyone born after 2008 will not be able to buy cigarettes or tobacco products in their lifetime, under a law expected to be enacted next year. "We want to make sure young people never start smoking," Health Minister Dr Ayesha Verall said.
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NZ Government to ban tobacco sales to young people for their lifetime in first-ever 'smokefree generation'
People aged 14 and under will never be able to legally purchase tobacco in their lives when a new law takes effect.
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UC San Diego Study: E-cigarettes Don’t Help Smokers Stay Off Cigarettes
E-cigarette use did not help smokers stay off cigarettes and may increase smokers' chances of relapse, according to a study by University of California San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, and UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center.
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Smokers up to 80% more likely to be admitted to hospital with Covid, study says
Smokers are 60%-80% more likely to be admitted to hospital with Covid-19 and also more likely to die from the disease, data suggests. A study, which pooled observational and genetic data on smoking and Covid-19 to strengthen the evidence base, contradicts research published at the start of the pandemic suggesting that smoking might help to protect against the virus. This was later retracted after it was discovered that some of the paper’s authors had financial links to the tobacco industry.
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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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Smokable Plants You Can Grow That Aren’t Marijuana Part 2
If you’ve started a garden over the past year, you may have fed your family with the produce you’ve grown. But have you smoked any of it?
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Smoking may disappear within a generation, analysts predict
In 10 to 20 years there could be no smokers left in many markets, according to analysts at Jefferies. Governments and tobacco companies are on the same side in this shift, as more countries adopt smokefree targets and companies push smokers over to reduced-risk products such as vaping and oral nicotine.
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7 Smokable Plants You Can Grow That Aren't Marijuana
Don't worry, it's totally legal
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North Korea bans smoking in public places to protect lives, health
North Korea banned smoking in public places to "provide more cultured and hygienic living environments," state-run Korean Central News Agency reported Thursday.
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Flavored Cigarette Ban Significantly Reduced Youth Smoking, New Study Finds
George Mason University study finds 2009 U.S. Food and Drug Administration flavored cigarette ban reduced smoking by underage youth by 43% and young adults by 27%.
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Smokers quit in record numbers amid Covid fears
More than one million people have given up smoking since the Covid-19 pandemic hit, a survey for charity Action on Smoking and Health (Ash) suggests. Of those who had quit in the previous four months, 41% said it was in direct response to coronavirus. Separately, University College London (UCL) found more people quit smoking in the year to June 2020 than in any year since its survey began in 2007.
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Oklahoma raises minimum age for buying tobacco products
Oklahoma has raised the minimum age for using tobacco products from 18 to 21 years old, aligning state law with federal law. The state law was signed Tuesday by Gov. Kevin Stitt.
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Inside the Philip Morris campaign to 'normalize' a tobacco device
At Germany's Bambi Awards for the media industry in November
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Can’t Quit Smoking? It Might Be To Do With How Sad You Are
By Emily Reynolds. Participants who watched sad video clips had greater cravings and smoked more given the opportunity.
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Lungs 'magically' heal damage from smoking
The effect has even been seen in people who had smoked for 40 years.
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Lungs 'magically' heal damage from smoking
The effect has even been seen in people who had smoked for 40 years.
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Cigarette smoke damages our mental health, too
The researchers found that students who smoked had rates of clinical depression that were twice to three times higher than did their non-smoking peers.
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