TED Talks
TED: You may be accidentally investing in cigarette companies | Bronwyn King
Tobacco causes more than seven million deaths every year -- and many of us are far more complicit in the problem than we realize. In a bold talk, oncologist Dr. Bronwyn King tells the story of how she uncovered the deep ties between the...
TLDR News
Cigarette Law & Banking Regulations - This Week in Parliament
This Week in Parliament is a series we are currently trialling where we keep you up to date with the latest news from the UK's Parliament. This week we discuss the latest bills about tobacco and cigarette sales and the availability of...
Healthcare Triage
The Proposed FDA Ban on Menthol Cigarettes
Though likely to face many legal challenges, the FDA recently issued a ban on menthol flavoring in traditional cigarettes and cigars. So why the specific ban on menthol? There are lots of reasons ranging from how it may alter the smoking...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Why Economists Failed to Predict the Financial Crisis
10 years later, Nobel laureate George Akerlof says the walls within economics need to come down. George Akerlof, a winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, doesn’t mince words: economists failed to predict the financial crisis because the...
PBS
Will Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
Today, lawsuits are positioning climate change as this generation's smoking: it pollutes the air, it's caused by burning chemicals we buy from a handful of huge companies, and it's dangerous to human health. Fossil fuel companies are...
Sky News
Tobacco Firms 'Should Pay To Help Smokers Stop'
VOICED: Health campaigners say tobacco companies should pay for the harm caused by smoking. A campaign is calling for a levy on the tobacco industry to help fund anti-smoking measures. Shows people smoking. Includes vox pops with smokers...
Bloomberg
La tecnología que está reemplazando nuestra dosis de nicotina
Oct.25—El hábito de fumar busca volver a ser respetable. Mientras que la práctica tradicional disminuye a nivel mundial, una nueva versión está tomando auge: los cigarrillos electrónicos. Los fumadores obtienen su dosis de nicotina...