Cigarettes were all but snuffed out in films and TV shows by the turn of the millennium. Now they’re making a comeback. Plot-driven or something more sinister?
Sixty years ago,the British Royal College of Physicians issued the first major report to warn of the dangers of smoking. The Herald responded in this editorial.
Australia is unlikely to follow New Zealand’s push to outlaw smoking while some parties continue to accept donations from tobacco companies.
Australian researchers say doctors should not feel they need to prescribe less effective nicotine patches to people with a history of cardiovascular disease.
Health authorities allowed the Vuse tobacco flavoured pods produced by British American Tobacco,saying they can reduce smokers’ exposure to harmful chemicals.
The investigative writer fires up in this furious indictment of the industry and Phillip Morris in particular.
Serial provocateur John Safran put publisher Penguin in an awkward spot when he posed for photos in Ferrari racing gear complete with Marlboro logos.
In the most recent fiscal year until the end of May,the ABF has seized 512 million cigarettes,a 36 per cent increase from the same period the previous year.
Readers applauded Ash Barty not only for her victory but for her sportsmanship,saying she’d made all Australians proud. Others also celebrated Dylan Alcott’s win in the quad wheelchair singles final.
There’s a whole generation of young Australians who only know cigarettes with plain packaging. It took a fight to achieve,but the results are in the numbers.
Ten acres of illegal tobacco – an estimated 25 tonnes – were discovered by Queensland Police and the ATO at Linthorpe,near Toowoomba.