Author: Lorraine Craig et al. Abstract Background: The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC), the first WHO treaty, entered into force in 2005. In April 2015, a sevenmember independent expert […]
January 26, 2019 The family of Robert McCain Sr. gathered at a Polk County courtroom earlier this month hoping to hold cigarette maker R.J. Reynolds accountable for the 2007 death of their patriarch, who had smoked cigarettes for more than 50 years. Read more: The Ledger
Authors: Samir Soneji et al. Abstract Importance: The public health implications of e-cigarettes depend, in part, on whether e-cigarette use affects the risk of cigarette smoking. Objective: To perform a systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies that assessed initial use of e-cigarettes and subsequent cigarette smoking. Data Sources: PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, […]
Author: Roy S. Herbst Tobacco companies are finally telling the truth about their deadly products, but only because they’ve been forced to do so. The relationship between cigarette smoking and lung cancer was first brought to the public’s attention more than 50 years ago, when the U.S. Surgeon General’s report on “Smoking and Health” was […]
Author: Sam Halabi I. Introduction Although the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act overshadow it, the first major law signed by President Barack Obama in his first term, the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (Tobacco Control Act), competes with both health insurance […]
Authors: Kelley Lee and Jappe Eckhardt Abstract The global tobacco industry, from the 1960s to mid 1990s, saw consolidation and eventual domination by a small number of transnational tobacco companies (TTC). This paper draws together comparative analysis of five case studies in the special issue on ‘The Emergence of Asian Tobacco Companies: Implications for Global […]
Author: Sidhartha Banerjee In a ruling described as “historic” by one anti-tobacco group, a Quebec judge has ordered three major cigarette companies to pay $15 billion to smokers in what is believed to be the biggest class-action lawsuit ever seen in Canada. Read more: Global News
Author: Sungkyu Lee Abstract The aims of this study are to identify what hinders implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) Article 5.3 in Korea, and to provide suggestions for the implementation of Article 5.3. Official governmental documents on tobacco control were reviewed. We also searched news […]
Author: Anna Gilmore and Robert Branston Introduction We have previously pointed towards the extreme profitability of the UK tobacco manufacturing/import market (henceforth tobacco market) when suggesting that the public interest would be served by regulating tobacco companies using […]
Author: Sungkyu Lee South Korea’s state health insurer, the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS), is in the process of a compensation suit against tobacco industry. The tobacco companies have habitually endeavored to ensure favorable outcomes in litigation by […]
