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The state of California has increased the legal age in purchasing and using tobacco products. This law is considered a big move in slowing the harmful and deadly effects of tobacco products.
India's growing cases of mouth and throat cancer prompts the government to issue a new ban on the manufacture and sale of all forms of chewing tobacco. Violators will be fined 300,000 rupees and gets imprisoned for up to six months.
The New York City mayor has signed a measure that will ban all use of chewed tobacco and e-cigarettes in venues of major league ball parks and in recreational areas.
Lawmakers said that to increase the legal smoking age from 18 to 21 may save thousands of lives. California lawmakers approved a package of sweeping tobacco-control bills that would regulate the manufacture and sale of electronic cigarettes, and make California the nation's second state to increase the legal smoking age from 18 to 21.
CIBC World Markets reported that legalizing marijuana in Canada could rake up an annual tax income of Can$5 billion (US$3.6 billion). Based on the experience of Colorado, legalizing marijuana could be a $10 billion industry in the nation.
Aftera the 5-year-battle with tobacco giant, Philip Morris, Australia has prevailed in maintaining its plain packaging laws under a bilateral trade agreement with Hong Kong.
Attorneys general of 33 U.S. states, including New York's Eric Schneiderman, urged the Food and Drug Administration to ensure health warning labels on nicotine-containing liquids and other novel tobacco products.
India has decided to delay implementation of bigger health warnings on tobacco packaging by a year until April 2016, as pressure mounts on New Delhi to take urgent steps to reduce tobacco consumption which kills up to 900,000 people a year.
A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday ruled that tobacco companies cannot be forced to announce publicly that they deliberately deceived the public over the health risks of cigarettes.
China is set to raise the wholesale tax rate for cigarettes to 11 percent from 5 percent, the Ministry of Finance said on Friday, in a move to deter smokers in the world's biggest maker and consumer of tobacco.
China's parliament has passed legislation that restricts tobacco advertising in public, strengthening efforts to curb smoking in a country where more than a billion people are smokers or exposed to second-hand smoke.
A group of tobacco companies sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday over recent guidance they say violates their free-speech rights by mandating pre-approval of labeling changes.
Lawmakers in the lower house of parliament are expected to vote to ban branding on cigarette packs by a large margin later on Wednesday, a move that would force manufacturers to adopt plain packets in England by 2016.
Ireland on Tuesday became the second country in the world to pass legislation requiring cigarettes to be sold in plain packets, despite threats of legal action by tobacco companies opposed to the move.
Major League Baseball players would be banned from using chewing tobacco at games in California under a bill expected to be introduced in the state legislature on Tuesday, the first in a nationwide campaign planned by anti-tobacco activists.
Cigarette maker Japan Tobacco International (JTI) has threatened to take legal action against the Irish government unless it halts moves to introduce a law requiring plain packaging of cigarettes, the Irish Times reported on Tuesday.
Dr. Margaret Hamburg, commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), who for almost six years has overseen public health initiatives ranging from tobacco control and food safety to personalized medicine, disease control and drug approvals, is stepping down, according to a person briefed on the matter.
