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The Tobacco Conspiracy – Documentary

This France-Canada co-production goes behind the scenes of the huge tobacco industry, whose economic power has been expanding for five decades at the expense of public health. A gripping investigation covering three continents, Nadia Collot's film exposes the vast conspiracy of a criminally negligent industry that conquers new markets through corruption and manipulation. To confront the tobacco cartel, anti-smoking groups are organizing and scoring points, but the fight remains fierce. With ist diverse viewpoints, shocking interviews and riveting images, The Tobacco Conspiracy deftly defines the issues in a complex situation where private interests and the public good collide. Enlightening and engrossing, this documentary is a hard-hitting critique of an industry gone mad.

From Pence to Price: How Big Tobacco Gained Massive Influence Under Trump, Plans to Expand in Africa

From Vice President Mike Pence to Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, a new Guardian report exposes how Tobacco companies have gained unprecedented influence in Washington since the Trump administration came to power. Politicians with deep ties to the tobacco industry now head the U.S. Health Department, the top attorney’s office and the Senate, even as tobacco use remains the leading preventable cause of death. The series also looks at how U.S. and British tobacco giants are trying to expand their global market, especially across Africa. We are joined by Jessica Glenza, health journalist for The Guardian.

Smoking Has Become the Root of ALL Evil! What's Being Done to Repair the Damage Done by Smoking? – Inside Story

According to the World Health Organization, seven million people - almost the entire population of Hong Kong - die every year because of smoking and other ailments related to cigarette use.

The WHO's annual report says the industry is costly to health, the economy and the environment. The report called Big Tobacco says discarded cigarette ends and waste contain more than seven thousand toxic chemicals that poison the environment.

Cigarette butts account for up to 40 percent of all litter collected in coastal and urban clean-ups. The report also said that between 10 to 14 percent of children in tobacco-growing families miss class because they're working in tobacco fields.

Tobacco also contributes to one in six deaths from non-communicable diseases. So what's needed to control the industry?

Presenter: Hazem Sika | Guests: Vinayak Mohan Prasad, Head of the WHO Tobacco Free Initiative; Hazel Cheeseman, Director of Policy at Action on Smoking & Health

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Tobacco Wars - Episode One - Lighting Up; Episode Two - Smokescreen; Episode Three - Smoked Out

TOBACCO WARS is a comprehensive history of the cigarette, providing an in-depth, balanced, and often shocking look at the tobacco industry. The series' three one-hour episodes are organized chronologically, from the advent of the cigarette through its ascension to one of the most profitable consumer products the world has ever seen. Via first person accounts and insider documentation, TOBACCO WARS vividly portrays what the companies really knew about the link between smoking and disease, explains how mankind became seduced by such a dangerous product, provides a status report on Big Tobacco today, and looks towards the future of this most controversial of industries.

Tobacco Wars - Episodes One, Two and Three

TOBACCO WARS is a comprehensive history of the cigarette, providing an in-depth, balanced, and often shocking look at the tobacco industry. The series' three one-hour episodes are organized chronologically, from the advent of the cigarette through its ascension to one of the most profitable consumer products the world has ever seen. Via first person accounts and insider documentation, TOBACCO WARS vividly portrays what the companies really knew about the link between smoking and disease, explains how mankind became seduced by such a dangerous product, provides a status report on Big Tobacco today, and looks towards the future of this most controversial of industries.
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Who Is Really Driving UN’s Anti-tobacco Agenda?

Faith Goldy of TheRebel.media's coverage of the UN tobacco regulation conference attracted attention from others who also felt their voices were being ignored.

All Journalists Kicked Out of Delhi Nanny State Conference!

Faith Goldy of TheRebel.media reports from Delhi: All journalists have been banned from further reporting. She demanded answers.

Inside the UN's Anti-Capitalist WHO Tobacco Conference in Delhi

Faith Goldy of TheRebel.media is in Delhi, India, reporting on the World Health Organization's meeting ostensbily about "tobacco control" but really about giving more power to unelected "busybodies," and raising your taxes.

Black Market Tobacco Floods Australian Market – The Feed

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First Major US Drugstore Drops Cigarettes

CVS will phase out cigarettes, cigars and chewing tobacco by October because it's no longer compatible with its healthcare business.

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China Considers Nationwide Ban on Smoking in Public

THE GUARDIAN: Rulers of country that is home to more than 300 million smokers mull ban that could be implemented within a year

China's leaders are considering a nationwide smoking ban in public, a leading health official said on Wednesday, as the country's tobacco-related health and economic costs continue to mount.

Yang Jie, deputy director of the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention's Office of Tobacco Control, said China's cabinet was mulling over a regulation that would ban smoking in public places nationwide. "Optimistically," he said, it could be implemented within a year.

"If you look at the general development of legislation, I don't think there are a lot of problems," he said at a briefing about the health costs of tobacco use in China. "What is most troubling is how to enforce the law effectively."

China is home to more than 300 million smokers – a third of the global total – and produces nearly half of the world's cigarettes, according to official statistics.

Smoking-related diseases cause more than a million deaths in the country a year, and experts expect the number to nearly triple by 2030. Smoking is deeply ingrained in the country's business culture; cigarettes are doled out as a token of respect and given as gifts on formal occasions, especially outside of major cities, where there is no social stigma against smoking anywhere, at any time. » | Jonathan Kaiman in Beijing | Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Putin Wages War on Tobacco and Alcohol

Russian president enacts law aimed at improving public health as Kremlin battles demographic crisis.

EU Bans Packets of 10 and Menthol Cigarettes

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: EU moves to ban menthol cigarettes and takes a step closer to plain packaging for tobacco products as it bans packets of 10

The sale of cigarettes in packets of 10 is expected to be banned by 2016 after MEPs voted for tighter restrictions on tobacco use across Europe.

Electronic cigarette substitutes, which are increasingly popular as a less harmful alternative to smoking, will be subjected to the same strict limitations on advertising as ordinary tobacco products under the plan aimed at reducing smoking among women and young people.

Linda McAvan, the Labour MEP who drafted the legislation, said the new rules would protect “children from being targeted by tobacco companies” via the lure of attractive branding, small female-friendly packs and flavoured cigarettes.

“Four thousand British children start smoking each week - that’s a staggering 200,000 new childhood smokers a year,” she said. Read on and comment » | Bruno Waterfield, Brussels | Tuesday, October 08, 2013

Stubbing It Out: Ireland Plans to Be 'Tobacco-free' by 2025

THE INDEPENDENT: Ireland’s health minister has outlined plans for a “tobacco-free” country by 2025.

Dr James Reilly’s proposals contain 60 recommendations to significantly reduce smoking over the next 12 years. He defines a “tobacco-free” Ireland as one where less than five per cent of the population smoke.

According to the Department of Health, the aim of the new policy is to de-normalise tobacco use in Irish society. Efforts to meet this end would include greater restrictions on the types of outlets where tobacco products could be sold, and the possibility of tax increases on tobacco to be applied over five years. » | Andrew Ansell | Thursday, October 03, 2013

Inmates Fume at Plans to Ban Smoking in Prison

THE INDEPENDENT: Plan linked to potential legal action by staff and inmates over effects of passive smoking

Locked up for up to 23 hours a day, the few moments of light relief on offer for thousands of inmates residing at Her Majesty’s Pleasure are set to dwindle further. After pubs, trains and public places, the prison estate for England and Wales is set to introduce a smoking ban – sparking warnings from former prisoners about a possible backlash.

Following the lead of Canadian jails and young offender institutions, prisons are set to become smoke-free zones because of concerns of legal action from non-smokers claiming to suffer the effects of passive smoking, according to the prison officers’ union.

Labour said yesterday that the plan to run a pilot at a number of undisclosed sites was an “odd priority” after claiming that inspection reports had warned that prisons were increasingly stretched anyway. The scheme is expected to be launched in the spring of next year and if successful could be rolled out across all prisons within 12 months, according to reports.

However, the scheme was met with opposition by some groups and former inmates who warned of disturbances with the withdrawal of tobacco and replacement with nicotine patches. Around 80 per cent of inmates in England and Wales are believed to smoke. » | Paul Peachey, Crime Correspondent | Friday, September 30, 2013

Documentary: Addicted to Pleasure - Tobacco

How smoking kick-started the British Empire and created a market of addicts. ¶ Actor Brian Cox reveals the rich and controversial past of sugar, alcohol, tobacco and opium to uncover how the commercial exploitation of these products hooked the world.