Medical Marijuana legalisation in Japan is currently underway

28 Jan 202328 Jan 2023

The Japanese government is set to introduce a bill that would revise the Cannabis Control Act and allow the use of medical marijuana. An outline of bills suggests the government…

Mexico and Italy reinvent narrowed-down versions of the smoking ban

20 Jan 202320 Jan 2023

Mexico and the socialist government of its president Andrés Manuel López Obrador has enacted one of the strictest smoking bans in the world, establishing a complete ban on smoking in…

Republicans scrap Nancy Pelosi’s 2007 Capitol smoking ban

19 Jan 202319 Jan 2023

With Republicans in control of the US House of Representatives, smoking has once again become possible inside the Capitol building, another victory for Democracy in the land of the free,…

Nobel Prize winner from 1989 says prohibition is not the right way to fight cancer

17 Jan 202318 Jan 2023

Famous American Nobel Prize winner Harold Varmus who won the Prize in 1989 for noticing that cancer can be genetically transferred from the DNA onto the cells through genetic anomalies…

Michael Mansfield said eating meat could be banned like smoking inside in 2017 Labour Conference

13 Jan 202313 Jan 2023

Forest Director Simon Clark said that "The health risks of smoking are well known but it's a legitimate habit that millions of adults enjoy. Banning the sale of cigarettes to…

Portuguese smoking ban amended and smoking allowed in bars and restaurants

12 Jan 202312 Jan 2023

'In catering or drinking establishments, including those with rooms or spaces intended for dancing, places where smoking is allowed in areas intended for customers may be set up, provided that…

The Forest Association announced that in 2023 it will challenge setting 21 as the legal age to buy tobacco

31 Dec 20221 Jan 2023

The British smokers' association Forest has announced that in the new year 2023 it is going to conduct a campaign against the delimitation of 21 years as a minimum age…

New Zealanders will not be able to smoke normal cigarettes in addition to cannabis post to the 2019 legalisation Referendum

21 Dec 202224 Dec 2022

During its second and final reading, the New Zealand House of Representatives, voted on 13 December 2022 in favour of the proposed law from November 2021 by the Government of…

New Zealand generational endgame for smoking passes its second and final reading and awaits Royal Assent

15 Dec 202221 Dec 2022

At its second and final reading, the New Zealand House of Representatives passed the proposed law from November 2021 by Jacinda Arden's Labour Party government banning those who come of…

Labour-supporting Mayor of Bristol vetoes the name for ‘Navy Cut Road’ as strong language between ASH intensifies!

9 Dec 20229 Dec 2022

Naming of a street to be named after a cigarette brand owned by Imperial Tobacco and the famous Wills family in Bristol, England, has been rejected by the city's Labour…

The U.S. WILL NOT HAVE pictorial-graphic health warnings on cigarettes – the court declared them to be unconstitutional

9 Dec 20229 Dec 2022

The United States along with the American People and the tobacco industry with the land of the free have ridded themselves of the obligation to print pictorial and graphic health…

RJ Reynolds sues California referendum flavour ban result for tobacco and vapour

12 Nov 202212 Nov 2022

The second American tobacco company after Altria (Parent of Philip Morris) RJ Reynolds which since 2017 together with the parent Reynolds American belongs to the British multinational British American Tobacco…

Greece, Bulgaria, Cyprus and Italy will not implement E.U. flavour ban on HTPs

11 Nov 2022

Proposal delegate act from E.U. health commissioner Stella Kyriakidou from Greece to ban all flavoured heated tobacco products except from tobacco flavours has not been objected by the European Parliament…

Californians ‘vote against themselves’ in menthol cigarette ban referendum

9 Nov 202218 Nov 2022

All of the sudden Californians have voted against themselves by vetoing their actions in person of those buying and selling menthol cigarettes while being able and permitted to do so,…

The Duchess of Cambridge addresses the problem of addiction

31 Oct 202212 Nov 2022

Princess Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, addressed those who have an addiction even in its slightest form, to address their problem and encourage them to seek help and advice, by…

A new type of self-igniting cigarette has been invented!

30 Oct 202213 Dec 2022

The young Israeli Rom Soriano invented something useful and original that solves many problems: the self-igniting cigarette. When it's raining or snowing or nobody has matches or a lighter with…

Irish health ministry denies smoking will get banned in parks and beaches

26 Oct 202226 Oct 2022

The Irish Department of Health has denied suggestions that smoking will be banned in public parks and beaches. It was reported in the Irish Independent on Friday that the move…

UK Chancellor who maintained the price of tobacco in 2021 is now the UK’s prime minister

24 Oct 202225 Oct 2022

Rishi Sunak MP who was the Chancellor of the Exchequer during Boris Johnson's government now became the UK's prime minister after Penny Mordaunt's nomination for leader of the Conservatives was…

Smoking abolition proponent Rebecca Jane elected deputy leader of pro-smoking party UKIP!

22 Oct 202223 Oct 2022

Nigel Farage, the political leader and coordinator of the campaign that led to Britain's exit from the European Union, is also an advocate of freeing smoking from all or most…

Tereza Coffey smoker-friendly vice-premiership scrapped after Truss resignation

21 Oct 202221 Oct 2022

Liz Truss has announced her resignation after just 44 days in the top political office of Britain's prime minister, bowing to unbearable pressure from her own Conservative party and the main…

The Forest Association chairman supports the Truss-Coffey administration

19 Oct 202219 Oct 2022

The health secretary appointed by Liz Truss in the UK who is also the deputy prime minister smokes, has accepted money and hospitality from the multinational tobacco company Imperial Tobacco…

Labour Party attacks Number 10 and Liz Truss’s staff supervisor because he worked for the tobacco industry

18 Oct 202218 Oct 2022

An attack with limited scope and publicity was launched by the Labour party in London, to the adviser to the Prime Minister Liz Truss, and to her as well as…

The new Secretary for Health in the UK a friend of smoking and democracy

14 Oct 202214 Oct 2022

The report commissioned by Britain's previous government of Boris Johnson from charity executive Javid Khan to analyse public health disparities and by extension the further fight against smoking had as…

The Forest Association at the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham

8 Oct 202216 Oct 2022

British smokers' association Forest organized a round table on Monday 3 October at the Conservative Party Conference held during the recent days of October in Birmingham. Several issues were discussed…

What lies behind the European petition registry for a smoke free Europe?

6 Oct 20229 Dec 2022

The Danish government drafted a bill last March to ban the sale of tobacco products to those born after 2010, but it was derailed by EU rules that make it…

Greens attempt to legalise cannabis in Australia by making use of the national constitution

30 Sep 202230 Sep 2022

“We've been told to wait for cannabis law reform for far too long, even when it's clear that the majority of harm is caused by policing and the war on…

Top FDA officials move their job to Philip Morris International

27 Sep 202227 Sep 2022

Two top US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials recently left and were appointed to top positions at tobacco multinational Philip Morris International. Their departure from the public sector and…

Greece hosting scientific summit on THR comes first in OECD in smoking rates

22 Sep 202223 Sep 2022

The 5th Scientific Conference on mitigating the risk of smoking at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation in Athens, Greece, concluded today, Thursday 22/09, in which leading scientists from all over the…

First day progress on the 5th Scientific Summit on THR in Athens, Greece

22 Sep 202222 Sep 2022

The first day of the 5th Scientific Summit on tobacco harm reduction at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation and its Cultural Centre in Athens, Greece, was completed on Wednesday 09/21. The…

Greek health commissioner of the EC plans EU-wide flavour ban for heated tobacco products

21 Sep 202221 Sep 2022

The European Commission, amazed by the excessively positive performance of sales of electronic heating tobacco systems, set out to ban them in their flavoured form. Heating tobacco showed a vertically…

Marewa Glover at the Athens Tobacco Harm Reduction Scientific Summit

18 Sep 202218 Sep 2022

The 5th Scientific Summit on Tobacco Harm Reduction and its related control will be held at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation in Athens, Greece during the two-day period from Wednesday 21…

Mike Tyson is exhibiting in InterTabac-InterSupply 2022

8 Sep 20228 Sep 2022

World boxing and wrestling champion Mike Tyson is exhibiting his own brand of tobacco products at this year's InterTabac-InterSupply 2022 exhibition which takes place this year from September 15 to…

Demographic survey establishing the vaping percentage in Great Britain

31 Aug 202231 Aug 2022

A new survey conducted by the anti-smoking agency ASH - Action on Smoking and Health, reveals the percentages of e-cigarette users in Great Britain (excluding Northern Ireland) as 8.3% of…

Registered EU Petition by the EC calls for variable age limit for purchasing tobacco

31 Aug 202231 Aug 2022

The European Commission said it has drawn up the European citizens' resolution called "A call for a smoke-free environment and the first European smoke-free generation by 2030" which should have…

The number of Germans who smoke has increased upright after the pandemic

31 Aug 2022

The number of smokers in Germany increased sharply after the pandemic from before the beginning of 2020 when it was the rate of 27% to 34.5% of Germans over the…

The FOREST Association has closed down its European branch, Forest E.U.

18 Aug 202229 Aug 2022

The pro-choice FOREST association has shut down its European division Forest EU because of the suffix to its website not being operable for bodies originating from countries outside the E.U.…

NZ Labor Government pursues legislation enacted to the expense of smokers

13 Aug 202217 Aug 2022

While the Labour Party of Great Britain was the first government to enact initial counter-smoking legislation being a smoking ban and the Labor government of Australia in 2012 was the…

Malaysia revokes passing of legislation with progressive age limit for tobacco

6 Aug 20226 Aug 2022

Malaysia has withdrawn an amendment to a bill tabled in parliament for debate that would have raised the age limit for purchasing tobacco products to target those born before 2007.…

Filipino vape bill passed into law

2 Aug 20229 Aug 2022

Neither former President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines nor current President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ratified the law passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate of the Philippines in…

What the opposition supports on the New Zealand endgame law for smoking

1 Aug 202228 Oct 2022

New Zealand Labor's controversial bill to gradually raise the age limit for legal supply of tobacco products from the market each year until no one is legally allowed to supply…

Marewa Glover talks on vaping and smoking legislation in New Zealand

1 Aug 202228 Oct 2022

Indigenous New Zealand head of the Philip Morris indirectly funded COREISS Centre of Research Excellence – Indigenous Sovereignty and Smoking Marewa Glover gave an interview to Canada's Regulator Watch Network…

Countries imposing tobacco plain packaging received funding from the W.H.O. according to Mike Ridgway

23 Jul 202214 Aug 2022

The director of the Consumer Packaging Manufacturer Alliance, Mike Ridgway, having more than 40 years of experience in his field for Europe and especially Great Britain, gave an interview on…

Medical researcher reveals the causes of the scientific inclination towards the anti-smoking campaign’s objectives

17 Jul 202228 Oct 2022

People smoke for the nicotine, but die from the tar. Michael Russell Dr Brad Rodu who won the Michael Russell Award at the GFN22 international pro-vaping conference in Warsaw talks…

JUUL to be taken off the US market with the FDA rejecting its trading application

17 Jul 202217 Jul 2022

The infamous JUUL e-cigarettes are being tried by the US Food and Drug Administration to be removed from the US market by rejecting the applications by the company, which is…

The UK joins New Zealand threatening progressive age limit for the sale of tobacco

20 Jun 2022

The conclusion regarding the further fight against smoking, entrusted in February by the British Minister of Health Sahid Javid to the executive in favour of charitable activities and actions of…

Dialogue and Democracy needed to confront crucial issues according to PMI poll

19 Jun 202219 Jun 2022

A poll conducted on behalf of Philip Morris by Povaddo last February, the results of which were published on 13 June, showed that the vast majority of the public in…

The Netherlands consider imposing cigarette prices similar to those in Oceania

16 Jun 202216 Jun 2022

Cigarettes in the Netherlands cost an average of 8 Euros and 20% of Dutch people smoke regularly. The Ministry of Health intends to increase their price by 2 euros by…

W.H.O. accuses the tobacco industry of “Green laundering”

3 Jun 20223 Jun 2022

The WHO accuses the multinational tobacco industry of "Greenwashing" challenging the viability of businesses in a report issued in collaboration with the S.T.O.P. The WHO rejected the responsibility that the…

Pollsters asking the British public to decide about banning cigarettes

22 May 202226 May 2022

Polls have invaded Britain from Australia that are asking the question of banning cigarettes to the sample about whether they would agree or disagree. Such polls were conducted in Oceania…

Finland imposes plain tobacco packaging by including e-cigs in the logo ban

15 May 202230 Sep 2022

In Finland, smoking is allowed in secular centres provided there is a separate smoking area with adequate ventilation. Also, the minimum age for buying cigarettes is 16 years. From May…

Conservative Party Chairman opposes Sadiq Khan’s cannabis decriminalisation

13 May 202217 May 2022

Partial decriminalization of cannabis was initially implemented in 4 of the 32 boroughs of Greater London, including Greenwich by the mayor of the British capital, Sadiq Khan, with a possible…

Vaping proven as problematic as smoking for respiratory and heart problems

13 May 202215 May 2022

Smoking and the use of e-cigarettes while avoiding lung cancer are equated with smoking with regard to cardiorespiratory problems such as heart disease, asthma, pneumonia and COPD. proved to be…

Prevailing confusion over e-cigs in the Far East

7 May 202215 May 2022

The Philippine Ministry of Health is urging President Rodrigo Duterte to veto parliament's passage of an e-cigarette law that would legalize e-cigarettes by substituting smoking, which are currently banned until…

E-cig bans lifted while New South Wales study asserts on their effectiveness

13 Apr 202215 May 2022

From August 3, 2022, the sale and consumption of electronic smoking alternatives will be legal in Malaysia after persistent efforts by organizations, associations and unions to persuade the government to…

Danish Health minister is obstructed from E.U. T.P.D. to impose increasing age-limit on tobacco consumption

10 Apr 202215 May 2022

Danish health minister Magnus Heunicke has met with opposition from EU law to a permanent ban on smoking by Danes with a progressively increasing age limit as he has planned…

Brazil is considering legalising e-cigs

10 Apr 202215 May 2022

E-cigarettes, although allowed to be sold to most people, are not allowed everywhere. There are 47 countries in the world that ban the consumption of e-cigarettes. The WHO erroneously in…

“The anti-smoking campaign has written our laws” argues lifestyle choices association representative Simon Clark

6 Mar 202215 May 2022

In an interesting and revealing interview with the Asian magazine Tobacco Asia, published by the Inter Tabac exhibition in Dortmund, the president of the British smokers' association FOREST, Simon Clark,…

Acclaimed medical researcher Costas Farsalinos disagrees with vaporiser flavour prohibitions

25 Feb 202215 May 2022

"Adults smoke because they like to smoke. I understand the case of certain aromatic flavours [from e-cigarettes] that respond to youth. But let's be honest. Adults also like the flavours.…

The first combustible cigarette has been classified as a modified risk tobacco product by the US Food and Drug Administration

29 Jan 202215 May 2022

The first combustible cigarette was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration with the designation of mutated health risk (Modified Risk Tobacco Product - MRTP) having a negligible amount…

“The war on smoking is a war on choice and pleasure” claims smoker representative

29 Jan 202215 May 2022

The representative of the smoking association F.O.R.E.S.T. from the UK says in an article in a magazine that users of all nicotine products, i.e. electronic and cigarette, must fight in…

New Zealand planning to phase out smoking by step of age – what if someone is a Maori aboriginal?

18 Dec 202115 May 2022

Unfortunately smoking is not accessible anymore in New Zealand for those who will be aged below 14 inclusive as of 2022 because whoever was born after 2008 inclusive may not…

Harsh criticism landing at the FCTC COP-9 conference by human rights activists

15 Dec 202115 May 2022

The WHO anti-smoking conference during the framework agreement for the control of tobacco signed by most countries of the world together with Greece having the USA and Indonesia as examples…

Deliberate demand to ban cigarette sales in Australia after Supermarkets can retain lower prices

16 Nov 202115 May 2022

Australian Health Experts from the University of Queensland are doing well to discredit its better reputation by proposing dates should be set for cigarette sales to cease in each Australian…

Forest Chairman Simon Clark confronts smoking abolition supporter representing the mental health sector

6 Aug 202115 May 2022

Forest U.K. Chairman Simon Clark confronted smoking abolition supporter Rebecca Jane representing the mental health sector from RJ8 on GB News when both were interviewed with Mark Dolan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As3q_EI9a4g It…

PMI heat not burn turmoil finding its place in the right ashtray!

6 Aug 202115 May 2022

PMI Vice-President initially said there is not a question on heat not burn tobacco but of heat and burn tobacco when introduced to the invention to be poised to begin…

W.H.O. still adamant that vaping imitates the act of smoking calling for research to establish types of risks

28 Jul 202115 May 2022

The W.H.O. are apparently preparing for the anti-smoking COP-9 conference this year in 2021 having postponed to do so from 2020 because of the pandemic by scrutinising calls for measures…

Renowned artist Anita Chowdry defends smoking as inspiration in Forest’s webinar on ‘consumer voices uncut’

11 Jul 202113 Oct 2022

Forest U.K. Chairman Simon Clark introduced renowned artist, painter and sculptor Anita Chowdry to the two-hour seminar by Forest saying that "Anita is a visual artist, a researcher and educator…

Painter Anita Chowdry and activist Emily Wieja will join Forest to protest on expected smoking extortion measures

1 Jul 202113 Oct 2022

Painter Anita Chowdry and activist Emily Wieja join Forest U.K.'s online webinar this Thursday the 8-th of July 2021 called "Consumer voices uncut" to protest on expected to be published…

Smoke-free tyrants cling onto their constitutional cell

18 Jun 202116 May 2022

Following 5 counties and Oxfordshire dictating to pubs and clubs about the nature of their job and function of their purpose by invading the specificity of their premises and overall…

Forest Chairman and Leader of the Foundation for a Smoke-free world talk on Euro-news about the smoke-free counties

8 Jun 202115 May 2022

Euro-News decided all of the sudden to cover the failed story of the smoke-free counties in England alone deciding to abolish smoking from drinking and entertainment venues in which customers…

Cumbria councillors and pub owner Dianne Irving oppose the establishment of the smoke-free counties

7 Jun 202115 May 2022

"I wouldn’t like to see a large section of the community ostracised. I feel we should look at a ‘hybrid’ solution. There should be places where smokers can go and…

Forest presents Jacob Grier’s book ‘The Rediscovery of Tobacco – smoking, vaping and the creative destruction of the cigarette’

15 May 202115 May 2022

Forest Association U.K. webinar presented Jacob Grier's book "The Rediscovery of Tobacco - smoking, vaping and the creative destruction of the cigarette" last Thursday the 13-th of May 2021. The…

Smokers Vs marijuana smokers absorb Philip Morris attention as new manager appointed

9 May 202115 May 2022

Former Philip Morris' CEO André Calantzopoulos said on 29 April that "We are doing all this work and will determine one day what avenues to pursue, but our priority is…

E.U. disputing menthol promotion schemes set by countries to prevent bronchial health of the citizens

8 Apr 202115 May 2022

Other countries in Europe other than the U.K. have menthol promotion schemes in place to protect the health-related symptoms of bronchial health for their citizens alike. In response to observing…

New Zealand anti-cancer society wanting to cut number of cigarette outlets by 90%

8 Apr 202115 May 2022

An outrageous petitioning demand has been raised by the New Zealand anti-cancer society to reduce the number of 3000~4000 retailers selling cigarettes to 200 in the whole of the country.…

UK Environment Minister unwilling to use taxes for cleaning cigarette waste

8 Apr 202114 Aug 2022

UK junior Environment Secretary Rebecca Pow claims that "We are exploring how cigarette companies can be held fully accountable for the unsightly scourge of litter created by their products," while…

Anarchy is the same across governments and people shows case study with tobacco plain packaging

5 Apr 202116 May 2022

As soon as plain packaging took effect and was forced on the British tobacco industry smoking rates went up by 0.6% to 17.1% in 2018 from 16.5% in 2017 demonstrating…

PMI Smoke-free future: This selection must remain capable to perform itself

26 Mar 202115 May 2022

PMI's inspirator of a smoke-free future as contributed from the tobacco industry by abstaining from cigarette production coherently with state aims and the objectives André Calanzopoulos has been giving his…

The Adam Smith Institute hold joint speaker meeting event on today’s ‘Vape Nation’

17 Mar 202115 May 2022

Three speakers came together under the organisational efforts of the Adam Smith Institute to debate about vaping recent developments and how they contravene smoking for a smoke-free nation by 2030…

Announced 2021 budget leaves tobacco price unaffected

12 Mar 202115 May 2022

The 2021 budget left tobacco prices unaffected like all other commodity taxes on alcohol and petrol and fuels. Tobacco rose during 2020 in November and along the annually announced budget…

FOREST Association hold consecutive meetings in tolerance of additional restrictions

11 Mar 202115 May 2022

FOREST Association for lifestyle choices held two consecutive 'smoking room' meetings to review an annual era of economic and social underdevelopment and inertia of economic progress and development to see…

1979-2019 marked the 40 years of Forest’s U.K. lifestyle association

20 Feb 202115 May 2022

1979-2019 marked the 40 years of Forest's U.K. lifestyle association. The celebrating event had a climax speech made with much optimism and much hope from the Chairman of the I.E.T.…

No Smoking in society and social distancing as its term

31 Jan 202115 Aug 2022

And I don't have to comply either being in the same position to know more about what the surrounding needs constituted of. I would refuse to be subjected to conditions…

The wider the group the better its members connect to each other in North-West Canada!

20 Jan 202115 May 2022

“My general comments are that the smoking prevalence rate is 35 per cent when Canada-wide it is 15 per cent, so the NWT is more than double the Canadian smoking…

India is ‘insensitive to poor, marginalised people trying to earn their living’ say retailers

20 Jan 202115 May 2022

Indian finance minister ventures an attack on tobacco sales and distribution while proposing six main restrictions in amendment of the tobacco products Bill 2003 to be subjected to India's parliament.…

£54,000 spent on budget from Lords for leisure and for smoking infrastructure

29 Dec 202015 May 2022

An approved budget of the House of Lords means installing smoking standing points in Victoria Park and the Houses garden next to the River Thames, and renovating the seating tables…

Winding year 2020: Genuine reappearance made of branded cigarettes post-Brexit for menthols

29 Dec 202015 May 2022

The culmination of health detriment less present in menthol for tobacco for bronchi it surpasses and alone circulates it in the market post of Brexit in half-quantity ten packets in…

Milestone as Philip Morris’ André Calanzopoulos internally displaced and demoted to chairman of directors board

29 Dec 202015 May 2022

Philip Morris' C.E.O. acclaimed notorious for threatening the consumer to cease tobacco manufacturing André Calanzopoulos to be demoted to chairman of the corporate board of directors after being elected to…