Los Angeles will clamp down on flavoured tobacco products

New rules to ban LA businesses from selling flavoured tobacco products are being celebrated by public health advocates and the community who argue flavoured tobacco products are a gateway to nicotine addiction.

“Researchers have found that the majority of youth who use tobacco started with flavored products.”

Africa will be the world’s ashtray if tobacco gets its way

“To protect their profits, transnational tobacco companies (TTCs) began shifting their business to relatively untapped markets in parts of the world where the opportunity for growth is largely unrestricted …

… Nowhere is this underexploited prospect as ripe for the picking as Africa. TTCs are expanding into African countries, where, excluding South Africa, the tobacco market grew by almost 70% through the 1990s and the first decade of the 21st century.”

Student collapses while vaping in school toilets due to nicotine dose

“A Blue Mountains Grammar student collapsed and had a seizure in the school toilets while vaping due to a massive dose of nicotine, highlighting growing concerns about the habit”

Mexico’s action on e-cigarettes will protect youth

“WASHINGTON DC – Yesterday, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador signed a decree banning the distribution and sale of electronic cigarettes and heated tobacco products in Mexico.”

Anger over cigarette smoke entering Launceston General Hospital maternity ward

“When Tasmanian mother Corrie Summers was in the maternity ward earlier this year after an emergency caesarean, she did not expect cigarette smoke in her suite with her newborn baby.”

“”I was absolutely appalled that in 2022 in Tasmania that it’s something we actually have to deal with,” she said.”

Meet the editor

We’d like to introduce our Advocacy in Action subscribers to our new editor and ACOSH Communications Manager, Cahli Samata.

Cahli would love to hear from you if you have any feedback, suggestions, or article recommendations for our e-bulletin. Get in touch by emailing csamata@acosh.org

Tobacco control news

• Charities to lobby new Labor government to protect right to engage in political advocacy – The Guardian
• England going smoke-free by 2030 depends on No 10 willpower – The Guardian
• Bethany Hiatt: It’s time to declare war on vaping to save the next generation – The West
• In secondhand vape, scientists smell risk – Heart.org