Twenty-two-year-old Hongkonger Elio* started smoking at the age of 16, when he was studying abroad in New Zealand. But what started as a way to kill time soon became a daily habit to relieve the stress of an uncertain future. Despite suffering from a collapsed lung in 2020, he resumed smoking and drinking a few months after recovery, later switching to e-cigarettes amid rising tobacco taxes. After the 2022 ban on the sale of vapes, he restricted his habit to one capsule every three days –...
The legal age to buy tobacco products will rise by one year, every year, from 2027.
People who are now 17 or younger will never be able to buy tobacco, according to the law backed by the UK Parliament.
During a three-hour hearing, the US health secretary tried to focus on chronic disease while being pressed on vaccines.
Residents want an additional platform on the southern side of the Ambattur railway station for express and fast local trains towards Chennai to halt; they demand a government hospital as people have to go to Kilpauk Medical College Hospital or Stanley Hospital in case of emergencies