The US Congress voted Thursday to raise the minimum age of tobacco and e-cigarettes from 18 to 21 across the country, amid a surge in youth vaping.The ...
Just hours after Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announced he would ban e-cigarette use, police were ordered on Wednesday to begin arresting ...
The UAE Cabinet announced on Tuesday that from January 1, 2020 the list of excise taxable products will be expanded to include sweetened beverages, ...
First ladies attending the African Union summit in Niger on Saturday called for a rise in taxes for cancer-causing products such as tobacco and ...
Oman will impose a new tax on sugary drinks and tobacco products starting on June 15, as the small Gulf oil producer seeks to boost state revenues ...
May 31st is celebrated widely as ‘World No Tobacco Day’. It is a day where awareness is spread about the negative effects of tobacco and ...
Informed sources said that the Saudi National Committee for Tobacco Control is in the process of imposing fines of up to $1,300 ( SAR 5,000) on ...
Cigarettes and tobacco products have suddenly shot up in prices but is this enough to curb smoking? Saudi Arabia doubled the price of cigarettes and ...
A new tax dubbed the “sin tax” is being implemented in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday, with a fee being added to tobacco products and ...
A bride in India was shocked to the core when she spotted the groom chewing “gutka” (tobacco) during the ceremony so much so that she ...
Following Saudi Arabia’s announcement to increase the prices of tobacco and its derivatives by 100 percent, grocery stores and retail shops ...
Saudi Arabia has announced the increase of the prices of tobacco and its derivatives by 100 percent in accordance with the decision of the Gulf ...
A Cuban cigar maker broke his own record on Friday by rolling the world's longest cigar at 90 meters (295 feet), the length of a soccer field, ...
The World Health Organization warned Syrian officials to collaborate with the UN health agency to control tobacco usage.
India's capital has banned chewing tobacco in an effort to lower the high incidence of mouth and throat cancers. The Delhi government ordered the ...
In Saudi Arabia, KAFA Association for raising awareness of the dangers of smoking has revealed spending at least thirty million riyals per day on ...
Since the 1960s, Cuba’s luxurious hand-rolled cigars have been elevated to an almost mythical status
Research published in The Lancet Psychiatry suggested daily tobacco use may be also be a contributor to mental illness
Egypt seized more than 64 million packs of smuggled cigarettes in May
Organizers warned that tobacco causes one in six of all NCD deaths
Margaret Chan urges countries that produce tobacco leaves to ‘move faster’ to fight tobacco
The no-smoking policy will go into effect once Reynolds builds indoor smoking areas for those still wanting to light up indoors
WHO made the proposal after the number of Egyptians exposed to scenes involving tobacco had reached “alarming levels.”
The photos showed so-called ISIS security forces in Nineveh and Mosul burning huge amounts of cigarettes and mu'assel
This is the latest shisha ban to come out of the Middle East, following a decision to stop issuing and renewing shisha licenses in Jordan earlier this year
On the occasion of World No-Tobacco Day 2014 on Saturday, WHO said that tobacco taxation was effective
Middle East firms remain relatively unconcerned about their employees smoking, recruitment experts say, despite a U.S. report claiming that workers ...
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