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British PM Rishi Sunak wants to raise legal age to buy cigarettes in England so eventually no one can
FILE PHOTO: A cigarette stub is seen in an ashtray on a street in Liverpool , northern England October 17 , 2016. REUTERS/Phil Noble/File Photo
british columbia
Illegal tobacco growth costing three provinces $2.47 billion in taxes, according to retail report
This photo illustration shows a man holding a cigarette on August 01, 2023, in Montreal, Canada. Each cigarette sold in Canada effective Tuesday now come with individual health warnings that "cigarettes cause impotence" and cancer, and that there is "poison in every puff." The labelling rule announced in May aims to further crack down on smoking and is a world first. (Photo by ANDREJ IVANOV / AFP) (Photo by ANDREJ IVANOV/AFP via Getty Images)
canada
A history of anti-smoking measures in Canada
New Health Canada regulations that require warning labels to be printed on individual cigarettes are coming into effect tomorrow. An example of cigarette packaging with expanded warnings, including a warning printed on the cigarettes themselves, is shown on a screen after a news conference, in Ottawa, Friday, June 10, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
report on business
Legacy food supplier Wallace & Carey files for creditor protection amid COVID-19 supply chain hangover
120509. Vancouver, BC. 7-Eleven Canada, Inc. on Denman Street in Vancouver, BC. Photo: Laura Leyshon for the Globe and Mail
canada
Health groups urge provinces to seek anti-smoking measures in Big Tobacco settlement
A smoker puts out a cigarette in a public ashtray in Ottawa on May 31, 2016. Three national health organizations want Canada's premiers to push for initiatives to reduce smoking during settlement negotiations with major tobacco companies, which provinces sued to recoup health-care costs. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
canada
‘We appeal to your leadership to stop Big Tobacco’: Health organizations pen letter to premiers regarding tobacco-companies settlement
A man holds a lit cigarette while smoking in San Francisco, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020. Retail organizations, merchants and tobacco industry officials estimate between 30 and 50 per cent of tobacco sales in B.C. are contraband products, and they are calling on governments and police to crack down on the organized crime groups that sell them. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Jeff Chiu
opinion
Will we one day treat alcohol the way we treat tobacco?
Joshua Knelman
canada
Ottawa must enforce vaping penalties to protect kids, advocates say
A Moroccan smoke a vape as he watch from a tv in Rabat, Morocco the World Cup semifinal soccer match between France and Morocco that is being played in Qatar, on Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
canada
Contraband tobacco inhales 30 to 50 per cent of B.C. market, retailers, industry fear
A man holds a lit cigarette while smoking in San Francisco, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020. Retail organizations, merchants and tobacco industry officials estimate between 30 and 50 per cent of tobacco sales in B.C. are contraband products, and they are calling on governments and police to crack down on the organized crime groups that sell them. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Jeff Chiu
alberta
Smoking, vaping to be banned on trails, sidewalks in Alberta mountain town
People walk across a street in Banff, Alta., in Banff National Park, Friday, July 21, 2017. The Alberta mountain town has passed a bylaw banning smoking and vaping in most public places.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
world
10 days later, Cubans still recovering from Hurricane Ian
A teacher dries out books at a school that was heavily damaged by Hurricane Ian in La Coloma, in the province of Pinar del Rio, Cuba, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
opinion
Canada is an undisputed global leader in its anti-smoking strategies. What comes next?
Joshua Knelman
european business
EU proposes ban on flavoured heated tobacco products
GIBRALTAR, GIBRALTAR - DECEMBER 6: Cigarettes are on display on the front window of a tobacconist shop on December 6, 2018 in Gibraltar, Gibraltar. Gibraltar, a British Overseas Territory, is the main point of entry for illegal tobacco products into Spain, a source of continued tension between that country and the United Kingdom. As the UK sought Spain's endorsement of its Brexit deal with the EU, the two countries reached a "memorandum of understanding" to reduce the average retail price differential between tobacco products in Gibraltar and Spain over the next few years. (Photo by Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)
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The Globe’s stars and dogs for the week
For Stars and Dogs column in Globe Investor/ROB only.
u.s. business
U.S. FDA halts sales of Juul e-cigarettes in nicotine crackdown, company to seek stay
FILE Ñ Juul vaping products at a smoking shop in New York, Nov. 10, 2019. The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday, June 23, 2022, ordered Juul to stop selling e-cigarettes on the U.S. market, a profoundly damaging blow to a once-popular company whose brand was blamed for the teenage vaping crisis. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)
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Legal age to buy cigarettes in England should rise by one year every year, review recommends
A man is seen smoking a cigarette in central London on June 9, 2022. - The age at which people can buy tobacco in England should rise by one each year until it becomes a "smoke-free" society, a government-commissioned review recommended Thursday. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP) (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)
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Advocates fear federal government’s changing vape strategy will shift focus away from cigarettes
A woman using an electronic cigarette exhales a puff of smoke in Mayfield Heights, Ohio on Friday, Oct. 4, 2019. Health Canada and its provincial counterpart in Quebec are investigating a widely-disseminated Imperial Tobacco advertisement on vaping to see if it violates advertising laws. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Tony Dejak
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U.S. Food and Drug Administration announces plan to ban menthol in cigarettes, cigars
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 28: In this photo illustration, menthol cigarettes sit on a table on April 28, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing to ban both menthol-flavored cigarettes and flavored cigars in a move hailed by public health experts which could potentially lead to 1.3 million people quitting smoking. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
canada
WHO reviewing policy after rejecting emergency use of Canadian-made COVID-19 vaccine
A vial of a plant-derived COVID-19 vaccine candidate, developed by Medicago, is shown in Quebec City on Monday, July 13, 2020 as part of the company’s Phase 1 clinical trials in this handout photo. The World Health Organization has rejected Medicago's made-in-Canada COVID-19 vaccine, restricting Ottawa's ability to donate the shots to countries in need. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, Medicago *MANDATORY CREDIT*
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WHO rejects Medicago COVID-19 vaccine over Canadian company’s ties to tobacco industry
A vial of a plant-derived COVID-19 vaccine candidate, developed by Medicago, is shown in Quebec City on Monday, July 13, 2020 as part of the company’s Phase 1 clinical trials in this handout photo. International Development Minister Harjit Sajjan says he wants the World Health Organization to greenlight Medicago's COVID-19 vaccine so it can be donated and used by the COVAX vaccine sharing alliance. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, Medicago *MANDATORY CREDIT*
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Quebec’s last tobacco farmer hopes to continue his legacy
Robin Janson poses in one of his tobacco fields during harvesting in L'Assomption, Quebec, September 10, 2021. Janson is the only tobacco farmer left in Quebec. (Christinne Muschi /The Globe and Mail)
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Evening Update: Ontario to launch vaccine passport plan for indoor restaurants, theatres, gyms on Sept. 22
Ontario Premier Doug Ford responds to a question during a press conference announcing the enhanced COVID-19 vaccine certificate system, at Queen's Park in Toronto on Wednesday, September 1, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Tijana Martin
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This small gift of tobacco is also a heavy reminder of Canada’s history
taxes
A shortage of workers, and $5 Champagne
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - JUNE 03: A pedestrian walks by a Now Hiring sign outside of a Lamps Plus store on June 03, 2021 in San Francisco, California.
inside the market
Investors should consider these two sectors for an inflationary environment
european business
Italy launches probe into unit of British American Tobacco over alleged covert advertising on social media
Signage at the London offices of British American Tobacco, on Jan. 15, 2021.
opinion
Ottawa’s tobacco tax should reflect the different health risks of vapes
Ian Irvine
report on business
Organigram CEO Greg Engel leaves New Brunswick-based cannabis company
Greg Engel, CEO of Organigram Inc.
european business
Britain considers forcing big tobacco firms to pay for cleaning up cigarette butts
FILE PHOTO: Cigarette butt ends are seen discarded on a public flower bed wall in London, Britain May 9, 2017. REUTERS/Russell Boyce/File Photo
canada
Canada’s drinking problem: why alcohol is the new cigarette
inside the market
These overlooked value stocks could pop if an effective vaccine emerges
A paramedic prepares to administer a nasal swab at a drive through, pop-up COVID-19 test centre outside the Canadian Tire Centre, home of the NHL's Ottawa Senators, in Ottawa, Sunday, Sept. 20, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
opinion
When will Canada get on the same page about the risks of vaping?
Ward Flemons, Brandie Walker and Juliet Guichon
british columbia
British Columbia imposes new restrictions to curb youth vaping
FILE - In this April 16, 2019 file photo, a woman exhales while vaping from a Juul pen e-cigarette in Vancouver, Wash. Schools have been wrestling with how to balance discipline with treatment in their response to the soaring numbers of vaping students. Using e-cigarettes, often called vaping, has now overtaken smoking traditional cigarettes in popularity among students, says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Last year, one in five U.S. high school students reported vaping the previous month, according to a CDC survey. (AP Photo/Craig Mitchelldyer)
canada
Substance use cost estimated at $46-billion in Canada, contributed to almost 75,900 deaths in 2017
A Toronto beer store is pictured on April 16, 2015. A study commissioned by the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction suggests some Canadians are drinking more alcohol due to boredom and stress during the COVID-19 pandemic. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young