A ram raid attack on a Coles supermarket is the latest in a wave of C-store and retail crime. ACT Police have the supermarket in Curtin was ram raided by a Toyota Sedan at about 4.10am on Thursday. Two people attempted to break into the cigarette counter, however fled empty handed. It follows violent robberies …
Two men were recently charged after reportedly importing 1.1 million illegal cigarettes. The two men falsely declared the cigarettes as black tea through Melbourne Airport. The Herald Sun reported that the haul was worth more than $10 million. The cigarettes were imported via multiple air cargo shipments, across from the United Arab Emirates. Colin Drysdale, …
Quit Victoria is urging the Victorian Government to take immediate action to ban the sale of tobacco products with squeezable capsules of flavour in their filter which mask the harsh taste of smoke and appeal to young people. The call comes as a new analysis in the British Medical Journal’s Tobacco Control journal reveals how …
Tobacco company Phillip Morris International has posted a job advertisement, seeking a candidate to help the company achieve it’s goals. One particular goal in question that may strike as odd coming from a tobacco company, is the goal of a smoke-free Australia. The advert reads: “Phillip Morris. We see a future without cigarettes. Help us make …
Over 15 years, the smoking rates in NSW have dropped by more than seven percent the NSW Population Health Survey revealed.
The Turnbull government has announced a crackdown on illicit tobacco in the newest budget.
Already on the record as supporting the use of eCigarettes to help people quit, Public Health England (PHE) has released an updated independent review into the use of eCigarettes and the findings couldn’t be clearer: eCigarettes pose a fraction of the risks of smoking and switching completely from smoking to vaping conveys substantial health benefits.
The Australasian Association of Convenience Stores (AACS) has welcomed comments by Colin Mendelsohn, associate professor and tobacco treatment specialist at the University of NSW, for saying that Australia needed to embrace vaping and eCigarettes.
International tobacco company Phillip Morris has made waves through the public with ads taken out in UK newspapers noting its new year resolution and “ambition…to stop selling cigarettes in the UK”.
A survey by Quit Victoria has revealed that almost 1 in 2 smokers between the ages of 18 and 29 in Victoria believe that rolling their own cigarettes is a healthier option.
An Australian intuitive has found that over 75% of Queenslanders would support a push to increase the legal cigarette purchase/smoking age to 21, from age 18.
While the illicit tobacco trade in Australia is well known to government and police officials, new claims have come out that tobacconists are employing sneaky tactics to promote cigarettes.
