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Clinic demonstrations, podcasts, and TV shows: Hristio Boytchev reveals how an ambitious deal between a leading medical education provider and the tobacco industry collapsed this week The medical education provider Medscape has bowed to pressure and agreed to permanently remove a series of accredited medical education courses on smoking cessation funded by the tobacco industry giant Philip Morris International (PMI), The BMJ and The Examination have found. Medscape has acknowledged its “misjud...

A leading medical information company has been urged to cancel a series of new education courses on smoking cessation funded by the tobacco industry giant Philip Morris International (PMI). Physicians and academics have rounded on Medscape for partnering with PMI on five courses launched in the past few months, and they have called for stricter oversight by certification bodies. Anna Gilmore, professor of public health and director of the Tobacco Control Research Group at the University of Bath,...

A long-awaited federal ban on menthol cigarettes and cigars remains in limbo, after the White House delayed finalizing a proposed rule until at least this month.

By Anissa Durham | Word In Black (WIB) - When it comes to nicotine, the impact on health — good or bad — depends on which researcher you’re talking to.

Tobacco ads have been banned in many countries for years, but Big Tobacco is finding ways to get around the rules – like partnering with Formula 1 to punt their new products to a global audience. Could South Africa’s new tobacco bill put an end to racing on our screens?

Tobacco ads have been banned in many countries for years, but Big Tobacco is finding ways to get around the rules — like partnering with Formula 1 to punt their

In 2021, 12.7-million South Africans used tobacco, with just more than 11-million of them getting their fix from smoking.

Enormous numbers of kids follow social-media influencers who relentlessly boost addictive drugs to audiences who are too young to legally buy them.

The documentary series posits that the tragedy of Juul was its decision to engage in marketing and advertising an addictive product to kids.

WASHINGTON -- The number of different electronic cigarette devices sold in the U.S. has nearly tripled to over 9,000 since 2020, driven almost entirely by a wave of unauthorized disposable vapes from China, according to tightly controlled sales data obtained by The Associated Press.