Big tobacco

The latest draft recommends smaller tax hikes for cigarettes, heated tobacco and e-cigarette liquids.

The South Korean court said the government failed to link smoking to specific health problems. It's part of a global pattern of decisions favoring the tobacco industry.

The Examination and POLITICO found that EU Commission officials had six meetings with the company after it requested help securing favorable tobacco regulations and taxes in non-EU countries.

The EU’s actions were a “great help,” Philip Morris International said in an email.

A Greek physician who has extensively studied nicotine was paid by Juul to lobby against Israeli vaping regulations. He didn’t disclose the payment in his research.

Lord Strathcarron didn’t publicly disclose his family connection even as he adopted the tobacco giant’s position on a “smoke-free generation” bill.

Governments in the U.S. and Canada went to court and got tobacco companies to pay for smoking-related diseases. Many other lawsuits have failed.

Some companies are advertising nicotine-free products containing ingredients called Nixodine and NoNic6. These chemicals are similar to nicotine, but researchers warn they may be even more toxic and addictive.

At least 17 countries have a stake in the tobacco industry, making them responsible for a product that is a leading cause of preventable death.

As public health experts warn of the dangers of heated tobacco products like IQOS, Lord Ed Vaizey argued that they should be excluded from a landmark ban pending further study – after touring Philip Morris International's lab.

The sudden shutdown of the CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health endangers a range of tobacco control programs stateside and surveys around the world.

A presidential agenda, pro-industry proposals and a probe — documents reveal Big Tobacco’s influence in the Philippines and on the international stage.

The FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products, which is not taxpayer-funded, oversees an industry whose products kill nearly half a million Americans each year.

As legal battles over vapes and menthol cigarettes mount, tobacco companies turn to former agency insiders to press their case.

By making legal threats and lobbying politicians, the tobacco industry worked to undermine a radical new bill to create a “smoke free” generation, documents show.

The medical education provider had proposed a year’s worth of online content about smoking cessation backed by the tobacco giant, an internal document shows.

The new labels are being proposed after The Examination revealed that British American Tobacco had successfully lobbied for minimal health warnings on its products.

England’s tobacco control programme lead, Martin Dockrell, told the controversial e-cigarette company how it could best enter the British market, internal company files show.

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Smoking rates have declined dramatically in much of the world since the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control was signed 20 years ago. But not in China – and its people are suffering the consequences.

Other countries are also considering bans on tobacco product sales, similar to a pioneering law now axed in a deal by New Zealand’s right-wing coalition.

We talk to the author of the book behind Netflix’s new docuseries on e-cigarette company Juul about the corporate and regulatory missteps that helped fuel a teen vaping crisis.

The tobacco giant is accused of violating French public health law in its marketing strategy for IQOS heated tobacco products. 

Twenty years on, the landmark Framework Convention on Tobacco Control has changed tobacco policy across the world — but still faces fierce industry resistance.   

While the tobacco epidemic continues to kill millions each year, the industry is making big bets on new products and emerging global economies.