News – Nevada Tobacco Control and Smoke-free Coalition

By Joel Mathis, The Week January 21, 2025- Cigarettes were once ubiquitous in American life. That’s changed over the last 50 years as tobacco advertising disappeared from the airwaves and a massive health campaign discouraged Americans from smoking. Now cigarettes themselves might be all but regulated out of existence. Nicotine levels in cigarettes would be “drastically lowered”... View Article

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Jan

Biden’s last chance to tackle tobacco: Limiting nicotine levels in cigarettes

By Erika Edwards, NBC News January 10, 2025- In its last few days of power, the Biden administration is expected to officially propose a limit on nicotine in cigarettes. It’d be a last-minute move to push back against the tobacco industry after President Joe Biden failed to finalize a long-standing pledge to ban menthol cigarettes. The proposal, which... View Article

28
Nov

Massachusetts lawmakers push for an effort to ban all tobacco sales over time

By Steve Leblanc, Associated Press November 28, 2024- A handful of Massachusetts lawmakers are hoping to persuade their colleagues to support a proposal that would make the state the first to adopt a ban meant to eliminate the use of tobacco products over time. Other locations have weighed similar “generational tobacco bans,” which phase out the use... View Article

05
Nov

UK introduces a bill that would eventually make the purchase of cigarettes illegal

Associated Press November 5, 2024- Legislation intended to ban today’s British children from ever legally being able to smoke began its journey through Parliament on Tuesday. The Tobacco and Vapes Bill would also bar smoking and vaping in some outdoor spaces such as playgrounds and the entrances to schools and hospitals. But a proposed ban on smoking in... View Article

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18
Oct

Big tobacco companies reach tentative multibillion-dollar settlement with Canada

Associated Press October 18, 2024- Three large tobacco companies would pay nearly $24 billion to settle a long-running legal battle in Canada, according to a...

02
Oct

Banning tobacco sales among young people could prevent 1.2 million lung cancer deaths, study suggests

By Lancet, Medical Xpress October 2, 2024- Creating a generation of people who never smoke could prevent 1.2 million deaths from lung cancer globally, according...

27
Aug

Stop & Shop will join other major chains and stop selling cigarettes

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN August 27, 2024- Stop & Shop locations will stop selling cigarettes and tobacco products this month, joining other major chains that have...

13
Aug

Cigarette Smoking Rate in U.S. Ties 80-Year Low

By Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup August 13, 2024- Cigarette smoking in the U.S. is at a low point, according to eight decades of Gallup trends....

29
Apr

‘Poison in every puff’: Individual cigarettes sold in Canada are now labelled with health warnings in a world first

By Kevin Jiang, Toronto Star April 29, 2024- Shoppers are already noticing some cigarettes individually labelled with health warnings in stores — and pretty soon, it...

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Apr