A confidential contract between tobacco giant Imperial Brands and Laos froze cigarette taxes for 25 years, keeping prices low in a country with high smoking rates, while secretly enriching a relative of the then prime minister @jasonmclure.bsky.social www.theexamination.org/articles/how...

The Trump administration’s cuts to the CDC threat anti-smoking efforts in the U.S. and in some of the poorest countries in the world, disrupting youth surveys and tobacco control programs. W/
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The Philippines is chairing the World Health Assembly for the first time – but public health organizations are calling on @who.int to revoke its role over ties between Filipino officials and tobacco giant Phillip Morris International. #WHA78 🧵

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Top government officials in the Philippines sought to protect the tobacco industry’s economic interests at one of the most important global health gatherings, a conference that aims at reducing tobacco use —and deaths. With @mattchapman.bsky.social www.theexamination.org/articles/how...

NEW: The fossil fuel industry and its allies are seeking to roll back workers’ freedom to choose socially conscious "ESG" retirement plans

Trump's Energy Secretary Chris Wright has played a key role

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"Feels like walking through a graveyard"

Recently fired FDA tobacco regulators describe the mayhem in their critically needed unit

Powerful work by my colleagues @mattchapman.bsky.social @jasonmclure.bsky.social @maria-perez.bsky.social

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Banks have poured $286 billion in a lax form of green loans into polluting industries like fossil fuels and mining.

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From watermelon Marlboros to berry Luckies, the tobacco industry is leaning in on flavor capsule cigarettes in Latin America. Banned in the EU and other countries, they are a hit among young people. To read more: shorturl.at/oGrqs Take a look here shorturl.at/uzXBr @examinationnews.bsky.social

¿Sabías que los cigarros con "click" arrasan entre los adolescentes? Les ponen sabores de fantasía como sandía o mentol-arándano, que atraen especialmente a los jóvenes y los enganchan Te lo cuento con mis amigos de @examinationnews.bsky.social y Salud con lupa www.labot.cl/cigarrillos-...

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First post here! Watermelon Marlboros and blueberry Luckies: PMI & BAT have been releasing cigarettes in kid-friendly fruit and mint flavors in Latin America. Young people say they make it easier to start lighting up. theexamination.org/articles/fru... @examinationnews.bsky.social