May 2011

The introduction of cigarette packs containing 14 cigarettes instead of the usual 20, which are being heavily marketed to the “price conscious” smoker, has been lambasted by ASH as a “cynical ploy” to ensure that less well off smokers don’t give up smoking. Five brands introduced packs of 14 onto the market in the United Kingdom [...]

Nothing much has changed since the international child rights NGO Plan exposed in a 2009 report that tens of thousands of Malawi’s child­ren work on tobacco farms. Malawi continues to have the highest number of child labourers in Southern Africa, with more than 78 000 children working on tobacco farms. Some of them are only five [...]