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Imperial Brands' confidential deal with Laotian government - low cigarette prices and an enriched insider

1 week ago | theexamination.org | Jason McLure |Maria Perez |María Pérez |Mailee Osten-Tan

This story was supported in part by a grant from the Pulitzer Center and is co-published in partnership with The Diplomat. A confidential contract between tobacco giant Imperial Brands and Laos has delivered millions of dollars to a relative of the impoverished Southeast Asian country’s former leader, documents obtained by The Examination show.
UK lawmaker seeks to delay heated tobacco ban after industry-funded trip

3 weeks 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.
Trump’s cuts jeopardize crucial tobacco trends data in the US and beyond

1 month 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.
How industry capture of Filipino officials helped deadlock global tobacco control negotiations

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.
A scientist is paid to study maple syrup. He’s also paid to promote it.

2 months ago | theexamination.org | Will Evans |Anjali Tsui |Ellen Gabler

This article was reported in collaboration with The New York Times. For more than a decade, Navindra Seeram, a biomedical researcher, has praised maple syrup, calling it a “hero ingredient” and “champion food” that could have wide-ranging health benefits. Seeram, dean of the School of Pharmacy at the University of New England, has published more than three dozen studies extolling the power of maple.
Grünenthal pushed its latest opioid as a safer option. People around the world got hooked.

Mar 19, 2025 | theexamination.org | Hristio Boytchev |Madlen Davies |Rafael Cabrera

World of Pain is a reporting collaboration among journalists in more than 10 countries on how opioid companies worldwide are profiting as addiction and overdoses rise. This story is co-published in partnership with The Lancet and The Telegraph. Linda Matthews fell in love with a man who was charming and funny and, like her, loved rugby and true crime. Brad Liefvoort was her soulmate. She could see herself raising a family with him. Then came the drugs.
Trump administration cuts threaten already-strained food safety system

Mar 17, 2025 | theexamination.org | Ashley Okwuosa |Sasha Chavkin

Last month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned imports from eight companies that had shipped clams from China contaminated with PFAS – a class of toxins known as forever chemicals because they don’t break down in the body. But when the alert went out, several of the food safety scientists who had kept the tainted shellfish from reaching American consumers were no longer at the agency.
Kenya sets precedent with graphic health warnings on vapes and nicotine pouches

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.
Former FDA lawyers join tobacco industry in ‘epic’ fight against the agency

Oct 21, 2024 | theexamination.org | Kathryn Kranhold

This story is published in partnership with STAT. Perham Gorji was a career government lawyer, helping to lead the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s battle against tobacco and e-cigarettes. He was there as the agency contemplated a ban on menthol cigarettes, and as vapes of all shapes and sizes flooded the market, hooking a new generation on nicotine. Last year, Gorji followed a well-trodden path for Washington, D.C., lawyers.
US private equity invests in chemical industry tied to global lead poisoning, worrying health experts

Sep 25, 2024 | theexamination.org | Will Fitzgibbon

U.S. private equity firms have bought up producers and distributors of a chemical compound known to cause brain damage, cancer and other illnesses, according to a new report. Blackstone and American Securities LLC, who control assets worth billions of dollars, have in recent years acquired operations in Canada and elsewhere that sell lead chromate, a toxic powder used in paint, on roads and machinery, and even in food, to brighten colors, add weight or withstand high temperatures.