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The finance ministry ignored a Pati request for records about the discount given to The Smoke Shop, until it was ordered to respond

The Smoke Shop’s owner, Michael Heslop, lobbied the Government for a discount that resulted in unrealised duty revenue of $11,868,420.80

Bermuda Health Council chief executive Ricky Brathwaite pleads for policy to reduce the prevalence of smoking on the island

Michael Heslop gave up smoking after becoming a Christian, and says he thought about giving The Smoke Shop away when he found God

From a 15-foot industrial ladder, in the dim light of the warehouse, the bankers boxes resemble coffins — 28,455 stacked in rows up to 12 high, four wide, 70 deep, boxes containing 93 million pages of paper — in a mausoleum to cigarette smoking. Here...

A survey on drug use to “monitor the nature and magnitude of the use and abuse of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs” is to be carried out. The Department for National Drug Control will run the telephone survey of 1,200 homes from next Monday. Questio...

Ever since e-cigarettes began surging in popularity, they have posed a vexing problem: these nicotine-delivery devices may help some adults quit smoking, which is more dangerous than vaping, but also may addict non-smokers to nicotine, especially cur...

Schoolboys can start to smoke as young as 10, the Minister of Health told a conference yesterday. Kim Wilson said a recent study showed that some young people tried the habit well before they reached 18, the legal age to buy tobacco. She added that a...

E-cigarettes should not be in the hands of children, the head of an anti-drug abuse charity for young people said yesterday. Truell Landy, the interim executive director at Pride Bermuda, said: “These devices are not for children and should not be s...

Smokers have to dig deeper into their pockets after the cost of brand-name cigarettes went up this week. Responding to the price increase, some members of the public speaking to The Royal Gazette said it may act as a deterrent — but others insisted i...

Tobacco restrictions have been approved by the Senate, over continued doubts from the Progressive Labour Party. However, a proposal from Diallo Rabain, the Opposition Leader in the Senate, is to be added later to the Tobacco Control Act 2015. The leg...

The Tobacco Control Act 2015 passed in the House of Assembly yesterday after a series of amendments. The Act had been tabled with the aim of improving Bermuda’s overall health and preventing children from taking up smoking, but became the subject of ...