23 May 2017.
Stuart Thompson resigned as chief executive of U.S. Tobacco Cooperative (USTC) and has been replaced on an interim basis by Chief Financial Officer Edward Kacsuta, the company said.
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SWITZERLAND
PMI test marketing ‘flat coil’ e-liquid technology
23 May 2017.
Philip Morris International is test marketing a product employing new technology described by PMI as a mesh patch to heat e-liquids that eliminates manual assembly of wick-and-coil designs that are the industry standard.
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JAPAN
JT to launch Ploom tobacco heater in Tokyo
23 May 2017.
Japan Tobacco (JT) will expand brick-and-mortar sales of Ploom TECH to Tokyo in late June and expects to launch its tobacco heater nationwide in the first half of next year, the company said.
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UNITED STATES
FDA should consider banning perforated filters; study
22 May 2017.
The Food and Drug Administration should make use of its powers to regulate cigarette design by imposing stricter controls “up to and including a ban” on perforated cigarette filters, according to a study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
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PHILIPPINES
Duterte bans smoking in public
22 May 2017.
President Rodrigo Duterte signed an executive order banning smoking in all public places and the sale of tobacco products to minors, the Philippine Star said.
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KOREA
PM Korea plans June launch date for iQOS
17 May 2017.
Philip Morris Korea said it will begin selling the iQOS tobacco heating stick in Seoul on 5 June, making it the first tobacco company to introduce heat-not-burn in Korea, according to the Korea Herald.
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UNITED KINGDOM
BAT announces breakthrough in e-vapour measurement
16 May 2017.
Scientists at British American Tobacco have developed a technique to detect unpredicted substances in e-cigarette vapour, BAT said.
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PHILIPPINES
Mighty and BAT in exploratory talks
16 May 2017.
Mighty Corp, the country’s second largest tobacco company, and British American Tobacco (BAT) have held exploratory talks on a distribution partnership, Reuters reported.
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FRANCE
CORESTA seeks input on shisha research
16 May 2017.
The Cooperation Centre for Scientific Research Relative to Tobacco (CORESTA) announced a survey to evaluate interest in performing research on shisha tobacco mixtures and emissions.
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ZIMBABWE
Market volume increases
12 May 2017.
The volume of tobacco delivered to market rose to about 4 million kg per day from 3 million kg as the season entered its sixth week, according to Zimbabwe Daily.
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