Bar and restaurant owners in Toronto are furious at the implementation of a new municipal law that prohibits smoking in all the city's 4500 bars and...
Archive - June 2005
The RTD Division of Control and Metering Ltd has been renamed RTD Technologies and now operates out of the research facilities of Rothmans, Benson & Hedges Inc
Japan’s non-smokers have sued the country’s prime minister Ryutaro Hashimoto for damages he causes by abusing his position as exemplary leader
Canada's parliament has passed a new law that will restrict sales of tobacco products and advertising even further
Philip Morris is planning to buy back US$ 8 billion worth of its shares and split its stock, which is expected to have a positive effect on share prices
Auspack 97, Australia’s international exhibition for packaging machinery and materials will take place in the city of Sydney from the 11th to 14th October...
Dr Del Gizzo, director of the Italian tobacco monopoly, has been relieved of his duties
OSTMA Maschinenbau, Zülpich/FRG, has formed a co-operation with the Swiss machine manufacturer SIG, Schweizerische Industrie-Gesellschaft
As of January 1, 1997 cigarette brands made domestically are required to have health warnings and a „Made in Vietnam“ label
Indonesia plans to cut down clove trees and convert the area to other crops in a move to curb over-production of cloves
GDA, the German aluminium association, announced a 3.6 per cent decrease in the production of aluminium foil from 195000 tonnes in 1995 to 188000 in 1996
The EU commission plans tax increases of 3 per cent above the annual inflation rate on tobacco products
The British Customs & Excise Department announced that it would hire 350 extra staff in the government’s efforts to curb tax evasion, avoidance and fraud
Schweitzer Maudit International, Inc.has announced the start-up of a new long fibre paper machine at its Papeteries de Maudit subsidiary in Quimperle (as...
Papastratos, the Greek cigarette manufacturer, is the first tobacco producer world-wide to use light-weight paperboard for cigarette packaging from the board...
Mr Padraig Flynn, European Commission social affairs minister, has called on the countries of the EU to ban tobacco advertisements from television and sporting...
Hauni Maschinenbau AG in Hamburg has announced that the board of trustees has extended Wolfgang Jeglitza’s contract as chairman of the company for a further...
Chinese authorities have taken the anti-smoking stance to a new level by branding the country's multi-billion-dollar tobacco business a pariah industry...
BAT (Germany) has announced that its Berlin cigarette factory will be closed by the middle of 1999