Tobacco firm describes the damages as ‘grossly excessive’

A group of 53 leading scientists has warned the World Health Organisation not to classify e-cigarettes as tobacco products, arguing that doing so would jeopardise a major opportunity to slash disease and deaths caused by smoking.

The Government is prepared to fight the powerful tobacco industry head-on in the courts because it is determined to protect children from the scourge of cigarette smoking, Health Minister James Reilly said yesterday.

A European commissioner forced to resign; the head of the EU’s fraud investigations body questioned; the commission’s most senior civil servant dragged into the melee; and now an unprecedented lobbying campaign in every EU capital.

Big Tobacco is proving notoriously hard to stub out but legal changes, excise hikes and the illicit trade are hurting it, writes John Hearne

There is no doubt that we in Ireland had, and continue to have, troubles of our own that we have to focus on and set to right, but right now we cannot but feel for the trouble that our friends in the US have to contend with inside their own borders, i.e being held hostage to the dubious and anachronistic notion arising from the 2nd Amendment to their constitution — the right of the populace to bear arms.

The world’s tobacco merchants are down on Australia after the country’s highest court backed the toughest cigarette-labelling rules anywhere.

Irish women are more likely to die of lung cancer than breast cancer as the tobacco industry aggressively targets female customers.

FIONNUALA Sheehan issued a vigorous defence of her drink aware website (Letters, August 11) following facts and opinions expressed by myself in a recent letter (August 4).

JOHN MALLON (‘Scare tactics and the smoking ban’, Irish Examiner letters, Sept 4) sounds like one of the tobacco people.

REGARDING the letter entitled “Anti-smoking lobby using phoney science” (Irish Examiner, June 26), the only people using “phoney science” and working to undermine smoke-free air are the tobacco people.

NO insult to the Minister for Health, but he’s never going to amount to anything as a fascist.

A new round of negotiations on an international tobacco-control treaty opened today amid fears by health campaigners that it will be too weak to prevent cigarette-related deaths rising to 10 million a year by 2030.

A lawyer in a multimillion-dollar case against the US tobacco industry has said that cigarette makers deceive the public to protect profits.