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The Telegraph : Vital Strategies’ new report on online bidi marketing in India finds that the tobacco industry are relying on social media platforms to promote products.

Health Policy Watch: COVID-19 has underscored the global threat of tobacco on health.

The Times of India: Five cost-effective strategies that are proven to prevent and reduce tobacco use, especially among young people:

Health Policy Watch: Rebecca Perl, Vice President of Partnerships and Initiatives, on how newer tobacco and nicotine products, such as e-cigarettes, evade regulation

Health Policy Watch: Eight campaigns and initiatives aimed at encouraging people to quit smoking were launched on World No Tobacco Day 2021.

Thing Global Health: NCDs in fact make us much more vulnerable to the ravages of coronavirus, and they are responsible for a large percentage of COVID-19 deaths—they are those so-called “underlying conditions.” And if NCDs make COVID-19 worse, the same is true in reverse.

HuffPost UK: Three years ago, PMI's chief executive said he wanted to phase out cigarettes entirely. But careful scrutiny of what has happened since then may tell another story.

Forbes : British American Tobacco (BAT) is among four vaping firms to have their Instagram adverts banned by a watchdog after campaigners complained that the posts, which featured celebrities and influencers, made the products more appealing to young people.

Daily Mail Online: Companies including British American Tobacco (BAT) will be barred from promoting e-cigarettes on Instagram and other social media sites as a result of a ruling by the UK's advertising watchdog on Wednesday.

Manila Bulletin: Rubiano said that according to the tobacco-monitoring group Tobacco Atlas, adding: “Every year more than 117,700 of its people are killed by tobacco-caused disease.