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Compensation in Smoking: Understanding Its Impact and the Tobacco Industry’s Early Awareness

Introduction Smoking remains one of the leading preventable causes of death worldwide. Despite widespread awareness of its health risks, millions continue to smoke, often influenced by misleading information and marketing tactics from the tobacco industry. One critical factor that undermines public health efforts is the concept of compensation in smoking behavior. This article delves into...

The Nexus Between Tobacco Manufacturers and Tobacco Retailers

The point-of-purchase is critical to tobacco sales. It is where the four Ps of a marketing plan—product, price, promotion, and place—unite and where, if successful, a shopper is converted into a buyer. Beginning in the early 1990s, as they faced growing restrictions on advertising and promotion, tobacco companies increasingly focused their attention and marketing...

Next Generation Products in Canada: An Update on Heated Tobacco

Earlier this year, the tobacco industry launched the first wave of next generation products (NGPs) onto the Canadian market. Unlike the United States, Canada does not require any kind of pre-market authorization prior to the introduction of new tobacco products. Last March Philip Morris International’s Canadian subsidiary, Rothmans, Benson & Hedges (RBH), launched iQOS,...

Philip Morris International and Foundation for a Smoke-Free World

Philip Morris International (PMI) has declared that it would like smokers to stop smoking and is “designing a smoke-free future.” In September 2017 the creation of the “Foundation for a Smoke-Free World” (FSFW) was announced to “accelerate global efforts to reduce health impacts and deaths from smoking, with the goal of ultimately eliminating smoking...

Toward the Legalization and Regulation of Access to Marijuana

The NSRA does not purport to have expertise on marijuana itself; however, there are similarities between tobacco and marijuana, and in the case of co-use, there is direct overlap. As such, there are lessons to be learned from 40 years of regulating tobacco and its disease vector—the tobacco industry. Our main messages are as...

iQOS: Will This Really Change Everything?

Earlier this year, the tobacco industry launched the first wave of next generation products (NGPs) onto the Canadian market. Unlike the United States, Canada does not require any kind of pre-market authorization prior to the introduction of new tobacco products. Last March Philip Morris International’s Canadian subsidiary, Rothmans, Benson & Hedges (RBH),1 launched iQOS,...

“Spookily the Same:” The Tobacco Industry is Recycling Australian Arguments in Canada Against Plain and Standardized Packaging

Even before Health Canada’s initial consultation on tobacco plain and standardized packaging (PSP) ended 31st August 2016, Big Tobacco and its allies had launched a counteroffensive. Former Australian Health Minister Nicola Roxon was in Canada in September to set the record straight on Australia’s success, and commented that the industry’s arguments against PSP are...

Shows How The Canadian Convenience Stores Association And Its Affiliate Were Used As Front Groups To Block Health Regulations And Tobacco Taxes

Ottawa & Montreal, October 18, 2016 — A confidential presentation by Imperial Tobacco Canada to its multinational parent company, British American Tobacco, reveals both the objectives and tactics behind the company’s decade-long campaign to “keep the contraband issue alive”, despite the fact that contraband decreased substantially in the country during this period. The document, provided by an...

Eye on the Industry: June 2016 (Plain and Standardized Packaging)

On this year’s World No Tobacco Day (WNTD), May 31st, the World Health Organization urged governments to get ready for plain packaging. Federal Health Minister Jane Philpott took advantage of the opportunity to announce the commencement of a 3 month consultation period on potential measures for standardizing tobacco packages and cigarettes under the Tobacco...