Plastic pollution from cigarette butts likely costs US$26 billion/year

Relatively small compared with overall toll of tobacco, but costs cumulative and preventable Bans on single use plastics increasingly common, but tobacco sources overlooked The costs of environmental pollution caused by plastics in cigarette butts and packaging amount to an estimated US$26 billion every year or US$186 billion every 10 ...

2024-06-04T10:25:26+00:0029 November 2023|Press release, Tobacco Control|

Tripling in proportion of smokers’ discounted overseas tobacco purchases since 2019 in England

But no reported change in black market purchases, reveals time-trends analysis The proportion of smokers’ discounted overseas tobacco purchases--- from duty free or  from countries with cheaper products, and known as cross-border purchases---has tripled  in England since 2019, rising from just over 5% to just over 16%, but there’s been ...

2024-06-04T10:23:33+00:0019 July 2023|Press release, Tobacco Control|

Vaping in early teens linked to persistent and heavier smoking

Externally peer reviewed? Yes Evidence type: Observational Subjects: People E-cigarettes may ‘entrench’ early patterns of tobacco smoking, findings suggest Young teen smokers who also vape may be at heightened risk of persistent and heavier smoking in their late teens, reveal the combined findings of two nationally representative UK and US ...

2025-06-26T10:50:02+00:0019 April 2023|Press release, Tobacco Control|
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