Just as big tobacco deliberately misled the public on the cancer-causing effects of smoking, big oil attacked scientists who warned of the impending climate disaster and their attempts now to help ‘solve’ the problem should be shunned by governments, write Kelle Louaillier and Bill McKibben

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 Press Trust of India reports that the cabinet has approved the drafting of legislation to ban tobacco advertising and agreed to ratify an international anti-smoking convention.

A COALITION of Irish anti-tobacco agencies yesterday accused Germany of siding with the tobacco industry to obstruct an international agreement on smoking.