The word 'tobacco' is correct and usable in written English
It can be used when referring to the substance produced by the tobacco plant, or to products, such as cigarettes or cigars, made from it. For example: "Many countries have implemented laws to discourage smoking of tobacco products."
Two films received seven nominations: The Insider, the true story of a whistle-blower in the tobacco industry, and The Cider House Rules, an adaptation of the John Irving novel set in a New England orphanage.
The public health community has an important role to play in demonstrating the magnitude of tobacco's threat to public health and calling on governments to strip away the trademark protections, rights to sue and opportunities to lobby that big tobacco uses to bully public representatives.
It increased tobacco taxes, implemented a smoking ban in all enclosed public places and workplaces, required labels to have graphic warnings covering at least 65% of the pack and provided services to help people quit.
In 1992, Thailand passed two laws to curb tobacco use: the Tobacco Product Control Act – banning tobacco advertisement and sales to minors – and the Non-Smoker Health Protection Act – prohibiting smoking in public places.
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The latest evolution of tobacco company strategies involves new nicotine products that make smoking attractive and confound the boundary between toxic and less toxic uses.
Society now compels us to hold tobacco companies in utter contempt, which is fair enough, but I have to be honest and say I could never hate the Benson and Hedges brand, not when they footed the bill for appearances of the likes of Roger Harper, Abdul Qadir, Graeme LaBrooy and Mohammad Wasim.
Those managing the money are not guided solely by profit maximisation: there's an investment philosophy saying no money will be put into tobacco or Sudan.
But this ignores that smoking is influenced by social norms, health beliefs, a person's economic and employment circumstances and tobacco industry marketing.
In a new policy paper on how to respond to their growing popularity the RSPH says: "Electronic cigarettes are significantly less harmful than smoked tobacco, and despite some products being visually similar to cigarettes, they are essentially nicotine containing products, or NCPs, like patches and gum".
"ASH shares RSPH's concern that the term 'e-cigarette' is not a particularly useful description given that the products are not cigarettes, do not contain tobacco and they are not smoked.
