The health, poverty, and financial consequences of a cigarette price increase among 500 million male smokers in 13 middle income countries: compartmental model study Global Tobacco Economics Consortium BMJ 2018; 361 :k1162 https://www.bmj.com/co…

USA. Trump Opioid Plan Writes in Favoritism to Single Company’s Addiction Medication The White House’s national strategy to combat the opioid crisis, unveiled last week, would expand a particular kind of addiction treatment in…

Facebook Bans Tobacco Ads, But The Tobacco Industry Finds Other Ways To Market To Teens On The Platform As Facebook comes under fire for its advertising and data-sharing practices, researchers have discovered that e-cigarettes and other tobacco pr…

USA. Pre$cription for Power: Patient Advocacy Groups Take In Millions From Drugmakers. Is There A Payback? KHN launches “Pre$cription for Power,” a groundbreaking database to expose Big Pharma’s ties to patient groups. (KHN &ndash…

Global Fund Suspends Partnership with Heineken The Global Fund has suspended its partnership with the beer company Heineken. “It is based on recent reports of the company’s use of female beer promoters in ways that expose them to sexual…

USA. How Advertising Shaped the First Opioid Epidemic And what it can teach us about the second. (Smithsonian magazine, USA, 03.04.2018) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-advertising-shaped-first-opioid-epidemic-180968444/