Written by Aidan Semmens || 10th August 2023 || Blog |
After the opening question, “Have you ever used cannabis?” came the follow-up: “Do you think it did you any harm?” To which my honest answer was: “Yes. It got me hooked on tobacco” ...
Written by Aidan Semmens || 3rd August 2023 || Blog |
While no industry, from aviation to mining, farming to fishing, can pretend to be uninvolved in the major growing issue of the environment, the tobacco industry is as inescapably bound up in the debate as any other ...
Written by Aidan Semmens || 6th July 2023 || Blog |
It’s an awkward complication in any global narrative about fairness, equality and social responsibility, that an awful lot of people in mostly lower-income countries owe their livelihoods to growing tobacco ...
Written by Aidan Semmens || 6th April 2023 || Blog |
While statistics are vital to understanding our world, they are often misunderstood – and that can be important when it comes to forming opinions and laws on controversial issues such as tobacco ...
Written by Aidan Semmens || 22nd March 2023 || Blog |
While not related solely or specifically to tobacco products, novel or otherwise, moves in both the EU and the US towards environmental regulations are likely to have a major impact on the sector ...
Written by Aidan Semmens || 1st March 2023 || Blog |
Is Dave Dobbins’s switch from COO of the Truth Initiative to a role with a tobacco company a case of gamekeeper turned poacher – or is there another interpretation we can put on it? ...
Written by Aidan Semmens || 5th January 2023 || Blog |
Correlation is not causation, but it’s tempting to see a meaningful pattern in figures showing that US adults (particularly the younger ones) are smoking less tobacco and using more cannabis ...
Written by Aidan Semmens || 9th November 2022 || Blog |
Jennifer Motles, chief sustainability officer for PMI, has urged companies of all kinds to go beyond seeing ESG (environmental, social and governance) impact reporting as a tick-box exercise ...
Written by Aidan Semmens || 4th August 2022 || Blog |
The latest financial report from Japan Tobacco International tells a tale that should make bedroom and boardroom reading for government officials, public health departments and regulators everywhere ...
Written by Aidan Semmens || 13th July 2022 || Blog |
Trust a politician to come up with a memorable soundbite, a catchy slogan or a simple statement that leaps out at you from the headlines. Top prize this week to Malaysia’s health minister Khairy Jamaluddin ...
Written by Aidan Semmens || 6th April 2022 || Blog |
A no-doubt well-meaning ballot measure enthusiastically taken up by voters just 18 months ago now has General Assembly members in the US state of Colorado tied up in a knot of their own making ...
New Zealand has designated a cohort of young people – those who will be 14 or younger when the government’s proposed law comes into effect – who will never be old enough to smoke ...
Written by Aidan Semmens || 27th July 2021 || News analysis |
The World Health Organization (WHO) has published its eighth report on “the global tobacco epidemic”, which places a new emphasis on “new and emerging products” ...
Written by Aidan Semmens || 30th December 2020 || News analysis |
Apart from the obvious, what has 2020 brought us? And in particular, what has it brought to the world of alternative tobacco and tobacco alternatives? ...
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