Matthew Chapman

6 days ago | theexamination.org | Matthew Chapman

This story is published in partnership with the Guardian. A British lawmaker who visited the Swiss research center of one of the world’s largest tobacco companies is proposing a delay to the U.K.’s planned ban on the sale of heated tobacco products – potentially excluding them from landmark legislation slated to go into effect in two years.

2 weeks ago | theexamination.org | Maria Perez |María Pérez |Matthew Chapman |Ashley Okwuosa

The Trump administration’s cuts to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are threatening anti-smoking efforts both in the U.S. and in some of the world’s poorest countries by disrupting youth tobacco surveys and slashing prevention programs just as new nicotine products flood the market.

1 month ago | theexamination.org | Maria Perez |María Pérez |Matthew Chapman

If you are interested in republishing or featuring this story, please contact us. Top government officials in the Philippines sought to protect the tobacco industry’s economic interests at one of the most important global health gatherings in the world, according to newly uncovered documents. The conference brings together representatives from more than 180 countries that are party to a landmark World Health Organization treaty that went into effect two decades ago.

2 months ago | jdsupra.com | Matthew Chapman |Victoria McCaslin |Emily Rickard

On January 20, 2025, an executive order froze two new pieces of proposed employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) guidance announced in a notice of proposed rulemaking and originally set for publication in the Federal Register on January 22, 2025.

Feb 26, 2025 | theexamination.org | Matthew Chapman

The Kenyan government has mandated graphic new health warnings on all new nicotine products in a precedent-setting move for public health in Africa. The new warnings were signed into law one year after an investigation by The Examination found the government had previously weakened health warnings on nicotine pouches after British American Tobacco threatened to pull investment from a new factory in the country’s capital.