UPDATE: Controversial China Tobacco Research Withdrawn from Prize Competition

Health advocates and scientists in China have won a major victory by forcing the withdrawal of research by the China National Tobacco Company from consideration for a prestigious national science prize. The Ministry of Science and Technology announced…
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children, china, china tobacco, tobacco industry, world health organization

Children Toil in Poverty to Produce India’s Bidi Cigarettes

Sagira Ansari suffers from coughs, colds, fever and persistent headaches. But her ailments do not shorten her workday or slow her as she drops flakes of tobacco into square-cut leaves, rolls them deftly and ties the ends of a bidi cigarette with twists…
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bidis, children, india, tobacco industry

Big Tobacco Sponsors Elementary Schools in China

In an apparent attempt to lure young smokers, China National Tobacco Corporation (CNTC) is sponsoring at…
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advertising and promotion, children, china, sponsorship, tobacco industry

Health Advocates Protest Tobacco Sponsorship of Alicia Keys Concert in Indonesia

WASHINGTON, D.C. – International public health advocates are calling on U.S. singing star Alicia Keys to withdraw tobacco industry sponsorship of her July 31 concert in Jakarta, Indonesia, and are condemning tobacco giant Philip Morris International…
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children, concert, indonesia, philip morris international, sponsorship

New CDC Global Survey Finds Tobacco Taking Massive Toll on World's Children

Washington, D.C.—A new global survey released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finds troubling rates of tobacco use, and even higher rates of exposure to secondhand smoke, among children around the world.

According…
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cdc, children, world