Philip Morris uses secret Senate hearing to warn illegal tobacco in Australia could wipe out legal trade by 2030
By Tom McIlroy and Nino Bucci, The Guardian May 5, 2026- Tobacco giant Philip Morris told a secret Senate hearing that soaring trade in illegal cigarettes would wipe out legal products in Australia as soon as 2030, claiming executives’ identities should be kept secret because of threats from organised crime. Labor criticised Coalition MPs for allowing the... View Article
Colorado students educate classmates about the risks of nicotine with help from vaping settlement money
By John Daley, KRCC, Colorado Public Radio May 5, 2026- Sunlight hits Pikes Peak as it towers beyond the big west-facing windows of Fountain-Fort Carson High School, south of Colorado Springs. In a classroom upstairs, a pair of students lead a discussion for a dozen or so of their peers on combating youth nicotine addiction. Sophomore... View Article
High school students take the fight against tobacco to CSN
By Grace Da Roch, Las Vegas Sun May 3, 2026- Jeana Kim remembers the day her friend’s father died from health complications tied to years of smoking. Watching someone her own age carry that grief shook her to the core. That friend was on Kim’s mind last week as she and a handful of fellow high... View Article
Can vaping cause cancer? The evidence suggests it might.
Column by Mikkael Sekeres, MD, The Washington Post May 4, 2026- Q: Can vaping cause cancer? And is vaping any safer than smoking traditional cigarettes? The modern electronic cigarette, or e-cigarette, was invented in the early 2000s by a Chinese pharmacist in response to his father’s death from lung cancer. It was meant to be a... View Article
Tobacco is still one of the world’s top killers – here are the key obstacles to enacting generational smoking bans
By Maria Helweg-Larsen, The Conversation April 10, 2026- Smoking is really bad for you. Most people know that. Even smokers think smoking is bad for one’s...
‘I always considered social media evil’: big tobacco whistleblower on tech’s addictive products
By Sanya Mansoor, The Guardian April 5, 2026- A key whistleblower in the tobacco industry’s landmark trials of the 1990s has been watching big tech’s...
Big Tobacco is No Longer Selling Cigarettes – It Is Engineering Addiction
By Hans Henri P. Kluge, Health Policy Watch April 5, 2026- Twenty-one years ago, the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), the world’s first global health...
