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Calculating the profits of tobacco companies in Canada
How much do tobacco companies make in Canada?
Answering that question became more difficult about a decade ago, after all three of the traditional tobacco companies (BAT-Imperial Tobacco [...]Preliminary results of Canada’s first RCT on quitting with e-cigarettes
Last week viewers of the American College of Cardiology's virtual annual scientific session were able to see the initial results of the first large Canadian randomized clinical trial of [...]St. Patrick’s Day and Imperial Tobacco’s marketing tactics.
It's St. Patrick's Day today -- and so this week Imperial Tobacco Canada has dressed its Vype promotions in green.
"Feeling lucky?" it asks visitors to its web-site before inviting them to "Go [...]Using consumer protection laws to strengthen tobacco control
Last week two more U.S. states filed lawsuits against JUUL, alleging that the company has mislead consumers and asking their courts to do what their legislatures cannot -- force the company to [...]Are concerns about vaping driving people back to cigarettes? Investors are told “no”
In recent months vaping companies have been warning that regulations aimed at reducing vaping will "drive people to cigarettes."
The recent "facts not fear" campaign run by Imperial Tobacco [...]The “heterogeneity” of the vaping market and why it can hinder regulation-making
A key challenge for health regulators when facing emerging nicotine devices is the complexity and change in that market place.
Unlike cigarettes, which researchers and regulators have [...]Weedless Wednesday 2020: The future of tobacco in Canada is on the table. Literally.
For more than 40 years, Canadian smokers have been encouraged to see "Weedless Wednesday" as an opportunity to make a quit attempt, as Canadian health systems use the week around it (National Non [...]Smokers tell Health Canada they have concerns about being encouraged to switch to vaping.
More public opinion research results have recently appeared on the Library of Canada web-site. Among them are the results of two series of focus groups conducted as part of the overhaul of health [...]This week Israel became the first country to implement plain packaging of e-cigarettes.
On January the 8th, several elements of Israel's law prohibiting advertising of tobacco and smoking products came into effect. Among these were requirements that tobacco products and smoking [...]Sorry, no posts matched the criteria.Recent press releases
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