Fifteen must-see design and architecture events during Mexico City art week 2026 - Dezeen

Major tobacco-tax reforms in several emerging economies have sharply increased cigarette prices and helped drive down smoking, offering powerful lessons for countries seeking to protect health, raise revenue and advance the World Health Organization’s 3 by 35 Initiative. A new independent analysis of 15 countries finds that every country made improvements to cigarette taxation between 2009 and 2025. The strongest results came where governments acted boldly, substantially raising taxes, simplifying tax systems and preventing cigarettes from becoming more affordable as incomes rose. WHO urges countries to use health taxes to increase the real prices of tobacco, alcohol and sugary drinks by 2035. The 3 by 35 Initiative aims to reduce consumption of products that drive noncommunicable diseases and injuries, while generating resources that governments can invest in health and development. “The evidence is clear: when governments make harmful products significantly more expensive, people consume less, lives are saved and public revenues rise,” said Dr Etienne Krug, Director, Department of Health Determinants, Promotion and Prevention, WHO.

Tropical Depression Fifteen-E redeveloped near the Hawaiian Islands and is now forecast to approach the Big Island, potentially as a major hurricane, bringing torrential rain and life-threatening flooding this weekend. Hawaii, which generally doesn't see much tropical activity, could see impacts from another tropical system after being impacted by three systems this season, including destructive Hurricane Lowell. next A flooded road is seen the day after Hurricane Lala in Hilo, Hawaii, Sunday, Aug. 16, 2026. The Category 1 hurricane brought heavy rain and strong winds to the island of Hawaii before moving away without making landfall.

“The exhibition in no way presents her as an Impressionist,” exhibition cocurator Stéphanie Cantarutti told ARTnews .

Is there a better no-frills standup at work today than Kevin Bridges? You’d struggle to find a more unfussily funny demonstration of the art form’s traditional virtues than at the Glaswegian’s new touring set. It’s a consistently laugh-out-loud suite of observational material on subjects comics have addressed since time immemorial: nostalgia, marital dispute, the latest cultural trends – alongside, as Ben Elton used to have it, a little bit of politics, too. Bridges really does have the X factor, and – without him ever seeming to stretch himself – Here If You Need Me is a steamroller 75 minutes of standup. For me, it needed to be, after being hit by a £10 – 10 pounds! – cloakroom charge because my innocuous wee bag (a notebook, a novel, a pair of glasses) was apparently too incendiary to be allowed into the venue. Oh that Bridges would turn his satirical eye on that racket. But the show starts with more obvious targets: Donald Trump, whose “negotiating” techniques our host burlesques in a violent dialogue with his electrician; and Benjamin Netanyahu, pausing before another act of destruction to check out Bridges’ Instagram feed.

More than sixty artists explore migration, memory, and identity in this survey of Puerto Rican abstraction across and beyond the archipelago. Left: Raphael Collazo, “Arcana Mundi (Mysteries of the World)", 1985; Top right: Olga Albizu, “Blue Oil”, 1974; Bottom right: Raphael Montañez Ortíz, “Archaeological Find #22: The Aftermath”, 1961