Press Mentions Tobacco Companies Are Targeting New Markets. Here’s What The WHO And Bloomberg Are Doing About It Forbes: Even with an abundance of scientific evidence showing that cigarette smoking increases the risk of coronary heart disease, stroke, lung cancer, and earlier death, the world’s biggest tobacco companies still reeled in profits that exceeded U.S. $62.27 billion in 2015.
Press Mentions Tobacco Control Policies Working, Report Finds Med Page Today: As smoking rates continue to drop in countries with aggressive anti-tobacco policies, Big Tobacco is increasingly targeting areas where the interventions are virtually non-existent, a new report charges.
Press Mentions Schools a health threat instead of place of safety Jamaica Observer: “The average child consumes up to three times more than the average citizen, based on accessibility, based on cost, based on marketing efforts, and what parents are saying in this survey is that it is a concern to us.”
Press Room Report: Big tobacco is targeting the world’s most vulnerable to increase profits The sixth edition of The Tobacco Atlas and its companion website TobaccoAtlas.org finds the tobacco industry is increasingly targeting vulnerable populations in emerging markets, such as Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, where people are not protected by strong tobacco control regulations.
Press Mentions Africa new frontline in anti-tobacco fight: activists The Independent: Africa and other developing regions are becoming increasingly significant battlegrounds in the effort to combat the spread of smoking, an anti-smoking campaign group warned on Thursday.
Press Mentions Big tobacco is targeting the world’s most vulnerable to increase profits, report finds Science Daily: In response to an evolving tobacco control landscape, the Sixth Edition includes new chapters on regulating novel products, partnerships, tobacco industry tactics and countering the industry.
Press Mentions Tobacco companies targeting world’s most vulnerable to increase profits – Report Premium Times: The tobacco industry is increasingly targeting vulnerable populations in emerging markets such as Africa, Asia, and the Middle East where people are not protected by strong tobacco control regulations, the latest report by The Tobacco Atlas has shown.
Press Mentions Big tobacco is targeting the world’s most vulnerable to increase profits Medical Express: It shows where progress has been made in tobacco control, and describes the latest products and tactics being deployed by the tobacco industry to grow its profits and delay or derail tobacco control efforts.
Press Mentions Africa the new frontline in anti-tobacco fight: activists Medical Express: Africa and other developing regions are becoming increasingly significant battlegrounds in the effort to combat the spread of smoking, an anti-smoking campaign group warned on Thursday.
Vital Stories A new generation of lung health specialists are now a leading voice in Ethiopia That the ETS meeting was able to attract high government officials from the public health and medical sectors as speakers, and was able to draw such a large and interested cross section of physicians and surgeons interested in the problems of lung disease in Ethiopia represents a signal achievement in the history of EATI, now entering its sixth year.