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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 ...

Tara Kessaram decided enough was enough. The 33-year-old doctor was tired of losing patients to preventable diseases. She left clinical practice to study public health in 2011 and in April, moved to the Solomon Islands to reduce the impact of cigaret...

Asthma charity Open Airways is “disappointed” that legislation providing stricter controls for the sale of tobacco has been delayed. The Tobacco Control Act 2015 was brought before the House of Assembly on Friday by Jeanne Atherden, the Minister of ...

“Punitive and draconian” tobacco legislation brought to the House of Assembly has been delayed for the Minister of Health to rise and report progress after rigorous opposition from the Progressive Labour Party. While Jeanne Atherden emphasised the ne...

Asthma charity Open Airways is backing proposed legislation amendments that will restrict the sale of electronic cigarettes. The Tobacco Control Act 2015, first announced in last year’s Throne Speech, is expected to be debated by MPs in the House of...

Restrictions on tobacco and e-cigarettes are soon to go through Parliament despite vendors’ hopes for amendments. The news was welcomed by the asthma charity Open Airways as the latest government statistics show that nearly half of Bermuda’s smokers ...

Bermuda’s upcoming tobacco restrictions are draconian and possibly the strictest in the world, according to a tobacconist who will have to take 161 products off his shelves. “There is not another country in the world that is banning so many products,...

Dear Mr Editor, Recently, the health ministry authored and is trying to push through a Bill (August 17, 2015) being called the Tobacco Control Act 2015, which would effectively put Bermuda’s only local cigar roller out of business. It will also seve...

Cigar sales will continue unimpeded in public under new legislation, which bans only the giving away of promotional items. Jeanne Atherden, the Health Minister, also stood by the move to ban sweetly-flavoured tobacco products, which she said had been...

Legislation laying down a raft of new smoking restrictions has come under fire from the owners of specialised tobacco businesses. However, the Ministry of Health revealed last night that the sale of premium cigars would still be permitted at public e...

The Smoke Shop owner Michael Heslop is working to bring back Bermuda’s first cash crop — tobacco — albeit in a smaller scale. Mr Heslop has spent the last few months growing local tobacco for sale in his store in the Washington Mall. “This is all goi...