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New data lights up enormity of tobacco black market

New wastewater analysis of nicotine consumption in Australia shows black market tobacco makes up a much larger share of sales than previously thought.

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Imperial Brands Touts Strong 2026 Start as NGP Growth and £320M Savings Plan Advance

Imperial Brands (LON:IMB) executives said the company has made a strong start to its 2026 financial year and its Strategy 2030 plan, with management emphasizing disciplined growth in next-generation products, continued value creation in combustibles and a multiyear efficiency program. Speaking at a

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Is Altria Group Stock Underperforming the Dow?

Altria Group has underperformed the Dow Jones over the past year, and analysts remain moderately optimistic about the stock’s outlook.

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British American Tobacco hikes sales growth outlook for smokeless ranges

The group said its cigarette alternatives are now set for ‘mid-teens’ growth, up from previous guidance for a low double-digit increase.

Evening Standard

'Invisible' nicotine grips young people and raises alarm among public health experts

After the WHO warned that nicotine pouches may be addictive and harm brain development, their use is rising in Portugal amid legal limbo, while officials and experts debate regulation of a booming market.

Euronews

Smoking linked to 15 types of cancer

Smoking is linked to at least 15 types of cancer, while e-cigarettes are no safe alternative, a Chiang Mai cancer specialist warned on World No Tobacco Day on Sunday.

Bangkok Post

Can cigarette maker BAT’s aim to be a mainly ‘smokeless’ business pay off?

The issues facing the industry will come to the fore when the tobacco giant publishes its first half trading update on Tuesday.

Evening Standard

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Unmasking vape threat to youth

Today marks World No Tobacco Day, with the World Health Organization (WHO) announcing this year's theme as "Unmasking the appeal – countering nicotine and tobacco addiction". The theme highlights the WHO's efforts to expose how the tobacco and nicotine industry continues to reinvent and repackage its products to hook a…

Bangkok Post

World Vape Day 2026: One Switch – Everyone Wins

BRUSSELS, May 30, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, vapers, former smokers, and harm reduction advocates mark World Vape Day 2026. The theme this year is One Switch – Everyone Wins. It is not a slogan. It is what the data shows.World Vape Day falls one day before the WHO's World…

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Is Philip Morris Stock Underperforming the Dow?

Philip Morris has trailed behind the Dow Jones Industrial Average over the past year, and analysts remain moderately optimistic about the stock’s prospects.

Barchart

Universal Q4 Earnings Call Highlights

Universal (NYSE:UVV) said its fiscal 2026 results were pressured by a non-cash goodwill impairment in its ingredients business and higher inventory write-downs tied mainly to non-wrapper dark air-cured tobacco, even as management described the company’s core flue-cured and burley tobacco operations

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Can cigarette maker BAT’s aim to be a mainly ‘smokeless’ business pay off?

The issues facing the industry will come to the fore when the tobacco giant publishes its half year financial results on Tuesday.

Evening Standard

As WHO Pushes Restrictions, World Vape Day Calls for Harm Reduction

BRUSSELS, May 28, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- This Sunday, the WHO marks World No Tobacco Day by calling for stricter restrictions on vapes and nicotine pouches. A day earlier, on Saturday, the world celebrates World Vape Day by highlighting how many lives this approach is costing.Liza Katsiashvili, Operations Director of…

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‘Social media should be treated like tobacco’: health experts say the internet is just as bad as smoking for under-16s as UK government edges closer to introducing ban

Social media use has been compared to smoking by medical professionals as the UK government enters the final stages of its ban consultation.

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Labour says Reform UK ‘in chaos’ as Zia Yusuf publicly tells Jenrick he’s got party’s deportation policy wrong – as it happened

‘Robert’s answer is not Reform policy’, Yusuf said about an answer that Jenrick gave to journalists days earlier

The Independent UK

Social media as dangerous as smoking for children, doctors warn

They say they are seeing ‘a wave of radicalised children’ who have been exposed to hateful content

Evening Standard

Streeting likens social media to tobacco as pressure grows for under-16s ban

The Government’s consultation closes at the end of Tuesday.

Evening Standard

Streeting urges social media ban for under-16s

The recently-resigned former health secretary joined calls for an Australia-style ban, ahead of a consultation closing.

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The Conversation

Why are people obsessed with (and stealing) Pokemon cards again?

In 1973, Japanese food company Calbee started attaching free collectable baseball player cards to its potato chip packets (and continues to do so today). It was mimicking a trend that had already taken off in tobacco markets in Japan and overseas. Baseball, Japan’s national sport, was an obvious choice for…

The Guardian - UK

‘Like tobacco’: Wes Streeting calls for partial social media ban for under-16s

Exclusive: Former health secretary’s intervention comes as government closes consultation on age limits for platforms

Reason

Japan's Smoking Bans Make a Lot More Sense Than America's

Owners of small restaurants and bars can decide whether to allow smoking, and customers can choose for themselves whether to patronize them.

AAP

NSW:Three charged as $3 million worth of cigarettes seized

Two men and a woman have been arrested and more than a million illegal cigarettes seized in a police operation targeting the tobacco black market.

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Three charged as $3 million worth of cigarettes seized

Two men and a woman have been arrested and more than a million illegal cigarettes seized in a police operation targeting the tobacco black market.

Bangkok Post

Toxic air deadlier than tobacco

Air pollution is one of the greatest environmental threats to human health. Every day, 99% of the global population breathes in invisible microparticles from dirty air, which enter our bloodstream and cause damage to our cells and organs. This contributes to 7.9 million deaths around the world every year and…

The Independent UK

FDA staff blindsided by org’s about-face on flavored vapes, contradicting MAHA goals

The vaping guidelines bypassed a federally mandated period for public comment and revisions

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