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A global anti-tobacco meeting opens in Panama on Monday to halt the harmful consequences of smoking, as tobacco companies endeavor to hook more users -- including children -- with addictive products.

A global anti-tobacco meeting opens in Panama on Monday to halt the harmful consequences of smoking, as tobacco companies endeavor to hook more users -- including children -- with addictive products.First seen as a way to stop smoking, e-cigarettes have themselves proven addictive, with some 82 million users in 2021, according to the US NGO Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction. 

Tobacco use is estimated to kill more than eight million people each year, according to WHO. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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A proposal to introduce tougher guidelines on vaping outdoors was held back at the last minute.

Government ministers are being asked to disclose any links to tobacco companies by public health researchers who claim their rhetoric is strikingly similar

As more questions are raised about the controversial decision to repeal the Smokefree legislation, Public Health experts are calling on coalition Government members to be transparent about any past and current dealings they have had with tobacco companies. ...