Information on the Tobacco industry

The UK Department of Health has recently published a consultation on the future of tobacco control. This consultation is seen as the first step in the development of a new UK tobacco control strategy and covers four main areas: Reducing smoking rates and health inequalities caused by smoking, protecting children and young people from smoking, […]

AMA Refuses To Challenge Menthol Exemption In FDA Bill
Some health experts in the US, including seven former Federal health secretaries, have challenged the proposed exemption for menthol from the FDA tobacco legislation’s list of cigarette flavors to be banned, but the American Medical Association (AMA) refused to oppose the exception by voting on June 17th […]

In a press release issued on Wednesday, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) - a Washington, D.C.-based national anti-smoking group - called banning smoking in homes the next front in the war on smoking and cited a new survey showing that a majority of people in Ireland expressed support for a total ban on smoking […]

Tommieboy, you raise a good point and one which goes to the heart of this issue.
How do you produce a less harmful cigarette and who stands in the way?
The answer; almost everybody. The lawyers will have a field day and the cigarette companies know it. The Federal government has no clue how to go about […]

TR’s show in Sao Paulo Brazil scheduled for October 14-16 is to be moved to Rio de Janeiro.
Provisionally it wil now be held at the Intercontinental Hotel Rio de Janeiro October 15-17.
The format has also been changed and it is proposed to be now more of an industry discussion / forum event.
Of course there will be plenty of […]

Now that Swedish Match joined USSTC in supporting the Philip Morris push for FDA Regulation, followed then by North Atlantic Trading and Dosal, the odds of approval in the Senate, after almost certain approval in the House, appear to have gone up, especially since NACS, with its 50 State set of supporters, has also joined […]

In the future, it may be a harder to purchase cigarettes as more retailers drop them and as officials in a few states look to ban the sale of all tobacco products in drugstores. For instance, the city of San Francisco has a proposal being reviewed by the city board that many believe will be […]

Smoking may be declining in the US but there are still around 60 million smokers here and in terms of harm reduction they are increasingly sidelined. This assumes that they choose not to migrate to smokeless - and not everyone will.
That leaves the cigarette business in a bit of a quandry - and the public health community too - […]

There’s real progress to be had for harm reduction in getting this news out to the general public.
There are advantages in harm reduction by smokers migrating to smokeless products. However, it would also be helpful if the relative harm for the various type of smokeless tobacco were made public. They are not all equal - but it seems quite clear […]

The TMA conference in Williamsburg VA wound up today. It was a big success.
A constructive diaglogue has really begun and can only improve.
We welcome the opportunity to engage with the public health community in a constructive conference.
Well done TMA for putting together this successful forum.