Tobacco and Trade: an unhealthy and harmful marriage On 31st May, we celebrate the World Health Organization (WHO) initiated World No Tobacco Day which this year focuses on tobacco and lung health. While the health-harmful nature of traditional tobacco products is...
Image by https://rebcenter-moscow.ru/ (Own work) CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons By Marine Faure & Charlotta Pisinger, European Respiratory Society Back in the 1960s, when smoking was more popular, cigarettes were used as fashion accessories and models,...
George Thurley, Alternate Public Health Member of the European Commission Expert Group on EU Trade Agreements; May van Schalkwyk, Policy Assistant, EPHA As tobacco control measures continue to be strengthened, both within EU national governments as well as across the...
Gabriel Siles-Brügge, Associate Professor in Public Policy at the University of Warwick & EPHA Scientific Advisor on Trade Policy Significant concerns have been raised regarding the risks posed by investor-to-state dispute settlement (ISDS) for tobacco regulation....
A new EPHA Position Paper on the possible impact of TTIP on the consumption of tobacco and the implications for public health. Tobacco products are unique in the scale and severity of the public health impacts they cause worldwide. Tobacco products are toxic,...