America's Poison Centers - Health Advisory: Increase in Nicotine Pouch-Related Cases Reported to U.S. Poison Centers
Nicotine pouches like Zyn and ALP don't mix well with kids.
Exposure cases from pouches reported to U.S. Poison Centers more than tripled between 2022 and 2024. This year cases are up 92% through August.
Kids under 6 were more than 70% of the exposures.
poisoncenters.org/news-alerts/...
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Pre-Conference Day Events
Before the 2025 Global Investigative Journalism Conference officially kicks off, GIJC25 will host a focused day of high-impact workshops and special gatherings led by top investigative journalists and...
Spots are filling up for our pre-conference #GIJC25 event! Join us for a packed day of discussions, workshops, and networking with investigative health reporters from across the world. You won't want to miss out.
๐จ More info and how to register: gijc2025.org/pre-conferen...
12.09.2025 14:26 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
YouTube video by The Examination
The public-health dilemma of state-owned tobacco companies
Companies partly or wholly owned by a government make most of the world's cigarettes. Our look at what this means for public health:
www.youtube.com/shorts/KUNQH...
04.09.2025 18:35 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
YouTube video by The Examination
How Imperial Brandsโ Laos Deal Paid Politicianโs Relative and Capped Cigarette Taxes
Thanks to @radiofreeasiapr.bsky.social for showcasing @theexamination.org investigation showing in-law of ex-Lao leader Bounnhang Vorachit earned $28 million from Laos tobacco privatization.
Interview (Lao subtitles): www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjW1...
Docs: www.documentcloud.org/projects/221...
02.07.2025 17:59 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Imperial Brands / Laos Tobacco
Documents obtained as part of an investigation of a 25-year contract between Imperial Brands and the government of Laos that capped cigarette taxes and paid millions to an in-law of the prime minister...
A deal between Imperial Brands and the Laos government capped cigarette taxes for 25 years AND paid millions to a family member of the country's then-prime minister.
Read the story:
www.theexamination.org/articles/how...
View the documents:
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26.06.2025 18:44 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
How Imperial Brandsโ Confidential Contract Kept Cigarette Prices Low in Laos โ While Secretly Enriching a Political Insider
The deal delivered millions to an in-law of the former president, Bounnhang Vorachit, while blocking tobacco tax hikes for 25 years. A confidential contract between tobacco giant Imperial Brands and.....
A secret deal by tobacco giant Imperial Brands delivered millions to an in-law of Laos's former president for a 25-year tax freeze.
This arrangement has kept cigarette prices among the world's lowest.
Story by grantee @jasonmclure.bsky.social for @theexamination.org. bit.ly/40ad76A
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05.06.2025 15:09 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Phillip Morris + a British lord + a trip to Switzerland = a new proposal to water down the UK's anti-smoking law
My colleague's @theexamination.org scoop this weekend, in partnership with @theguardian.com ๐
02.06.2025 13:29 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
How industry capture of Filipino officials helped deadlock global tobacco control negotiations
A presidential agenda, pro-industry proposals and a probe โ documents reveal Big Tobaccoโs influence in the Philippines and on the international stage.
The Philippines is chairing the World Health Assembly for the first time โ but public health organizations are calling on @who.int to revoke its role over ties between Filipino officials and tobacco giant Phillip Morris International. #WHA78 ๐งต
www.theexamination.org/articles/how...
21.05.2025 18:58 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
A scientist is paid to study maple syrup. Heโs also paid to promote it.
Funded by the maple industry, a researcher has exaggerated his findings to suggest that syrup could help prevent serious diseases.
Our new investigation with @nytimes.com shows how โ by intertwining science and salesmanship โ one researcher has fueled misleading claims about the health benefits of maple syrup, with the help of industry funding.
www.theexamination.org/articles/a-s...
15.04.2025 19:10 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Grรผnenthal pushed its latest opioid as a safer option. People around the world got hooked.
Fueled by misleading marketing claims, the German drugmakerโs painkiller tapentadol is on the rise.
Opioids alert! Prescriptions for tapentadol have surpassed those for oxycodone.
Yet drug company Grรผnenthal and others have made misleading claims about its addictiveness - echoing a strategy that Purdue Pharma and other opioid makers used to hook millions.
www.theexamination.org/articles/gru...
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Well thatโs a headline I did not except to see. Ever.
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Trumpโs energy secretary pushed legal attack on green investing
Former fracking company CEO Chris Wright played a key role in efforts to roll back workersโ choices in socially conscious ESG investing.
NEW: The fossil fuel industry and its allies are seeking to roll back workersโ freedom to choose socially conscious "ESG" retirement plans
Trump's Energy Secretary Chris Wright has played a key role
For @theexamination.org & @gristnews.bsky.social
www.theexamination.org/articles/tru...
04.03.2025 14:14 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Do you have $$ in a retirement plan that considers ESG, and want to talk about why it matters to you?
I'm a reporter working on a story about legal attacks on ESG investing, and would love to hear from you. Reply and I'll be in touch, and share to help spread the word
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14.02.2025 15:11 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
How To Investigate Green Finance
Join investigative journalists Bruna Bronoski, Alexander Abdelilah, and Sasha Chavkin for an in-depth discussion on investigating "green finance" schemes. Hosted by the Pulitzer Center, this event wil...
Join @sashachavkin.bsky.social on Feb. 11 at 4:00pmGMT for the @pulitzercenter.bsky.social webinar, "How To Investigate Green Finance."
What To Expect:
๐ข Practical techniques for analyzing financial records
๐ข Tips for using open-source intelligence in reporting
& moreโ
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10.02.2025 17:39 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1
How mega-polluters take advantage of billions in green loans
Banks poured $286 billion into corporations linked to deforestation and polluting industries like fossil fuels and mining through a lax type of green finance called sustainability-linked loans.
Excited to share a new investigation...
Banks have poured $286 billion in a lax form of green loans into polluting industries like fossil fuels and mining.
With the Toronto Star & Mississippi Today, published with AP & supported by Pulitzer Center
www.theexamination.org/articles/how...
15.01.2025 14:27 โ ๐ 13 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
YouTube video by The Examination
Flavored cigarettes in Latin America: โItโs like smoking gum'
"It's like smoking chewing gum."
'Click' cigarettes w/flavors like watermelon and blueberry have rocketed in popularity in Latin America.
@mariajpsl went to Chile to see if the industry's vows not to target children are real.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLB4...
22.11.2024 15:04 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Fruity 'click' cigarettes a hit with Latin American teens amid 'constant' industry lobbying
Companies release watermelon Marlboros, blueberry-menthol Luckies despite โsmoke-freeโ promises
How to get a 12-year-old to start smoking?
Making cigs youngsters compare to lollipops & lemonade may help.
Flavor capsule cigarette sales boom in Latin America as
Philip Morris Int. and British American Tobacco use festivals and feature musicians like @echosmith in marketing: bit.ly/4hXUwlE
21.11.2024 17:43 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
YouTube video by The Examination
Flavored cigarettes in Latin America: โItโs like smoking gum'
Watermelon Marlboros and lemony Lucky Strikes?
"Click cigarettes" with a flavor capsule in the filter have taken Latin America by storm.
Philip Morris Int., British American Tobacco say they don't target kids with fruity cigs.
@maria-perez.bsky.social tested that claim in Chile:
bit.ly/4g1w15j
21.11.2024 16:04 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
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