QINGDAO: After several bans on smoking in public places in most Chinese cities went up in smoke, Shanghai and Luoyang have expressed a desire to educate parents of the dangers of puffing away in front of their kids. Shanghai and Luoyang are among six cities, including Wuxi (Jiangsu), Changsha (Hubei), Ningbo (Zhejiang) and Tangshan (Hebei), which joined Qingdao in a campaign called “Tobacco Free Cities” launched in the coastal capita ... Jump to full article >>

British American Tobacco (BAT) spent more than €700,000 lobbying the EU last year, up to four times as much as the company declared on the EU’s register of interest representatives, new research by Corporate Europe Observatory has revealed. This report argues that BAT’s hidden lobbying activities, which are clearly not in the public interest, should be exposed to public scrutiny. As the world’s number two tobacco company, European mu ... Jump to full article >>