Smoking
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Maldives becomes the only country with generational smoking ban
Indian Ocean archipelago bans anyone born after 1 January 2007 from buying or using tobacco in order to ‘promo…
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BAT subsidiary lobbies Pakistan to allow export of cigarettes to Sudan
Exclusive: critics say British American Tobacco’s plan to ‘flood a country in crisis with cheap cigarettes’ is…
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How New Zealand’s smoking ban got stubbed out – and what the UK can learn from it
Big tobacco ‘working in the shadows’ blamed for killing off NZ’s pioneering plan to protect future generations…
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New Zealand scraps world-first smoking ‘generation ban’ to fund tax cuts
Health experts say axing plan to block sales of tobacco products to next generation will cost thousands of liv…
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New Zealand passes world-first tobacco law to ban smoking for next generation
The country is believed to be the first to implement an annually rising legal smoking age New Zealand has intr…
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China’s ‘hidden epidemics’: the preventable diseases that could reshape a nation
Stratospheric economic growth since the late 1970s has brought great prosperity, along with ‘western-style’ he…
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The urban-rural divide hampering China’s efforts to cut smoking
Health cover varies widely between rich cities and poorer regions, and government messages on healthy living d…
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New Zealand to ban smoking for next generation in bid to outlaw habit by 2025
Legislation will mean people currently aged 14 and under will never be able to legally purchase tobaccoNew Zea…
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North Korea bans smoking in public places to safeguard ‘hygienic living’
Measure comes despite more than 43% of the country’s male population being smokers, including leader Kim Jong-…
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Issues raised by coronavirus in geopolitics, science and economics | Letters
The World Health Organization should not exclude Taiwan from efforts to tackle the outbreak, writes David YL L…
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Shenzhen, vaping capital of the world, holds its breath as health concerns spiral
E-cigarette-related deaths in the US and a Beijing directive have China’s manufacturing sector on tenterhooks …