A Florida state jury on Tuesday ruled against a flight attendant who claimed her chronic sinusitis was caused by exposure to cigarette smoke on airplanes...
Archive - June 2005
According to the latest Nielsen data, volumes in the largest European markets, excluding France, were a little soft in the first quarter, Morgan Stanley...
When an appeals court barred the government from seeking US$ 280 billion in a civil racketeering trial against cigarette makers earlier this year, many legal...
RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company and RJR Packaging, LLC on 2 May 2005 closed the sale of the assets and business of RJR Packaging to five packaging companies.
Tobacco giant Philip Morris said on 18 May 2005 it was close to completing the purchase of major Indonesian cigarette maker PT HM Sampoerna for about US$ 5.2...
Cigarette makers should be forced to fund a 25-year, US$ 130 billion program to help smokers who want to quit, a witness testified on 17 May 2005 in the US...
Wales will get a ban on smoking in all public places - but it must first ask Parliament for the necessary law-making powers.
The European Union is stepping up its anti-smoking campaign with television advertisements aiming to "ridicule" the habit, its executive arm said.
Ayatollah Nasser Makarem-Shirazi on 24 May 2005 said smoking cigarettes is unlawful, which injunction applies to those who follow his religious guidelines...
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TJI interview with Frederick de Cramer
Italy's new health minister said he wants more public smoking areas, sharply reduced under a new ban, and slammed what he called a trend towards obsessive...
An anti-smoking activist has urged the government to raise the cigarette excise tax by at least 40 per cent, saying cigarette sales in the country have grown...
Cigarette sales in Malaysia could fall up to 10 per cent this year because of higher retail prices sparked by a steep tax increase, the country's biggest...
According to the Belarusian ministry for statistics, 3.5 billion cigarettes were produced by the local industry over the first three months of the year, 12.6...
After summing up the yearly performance of the Kansk tobacco plant, the committee for industrial and housing policy of the Krasnoyarsk region legislature...
A Dutch unit of Philip Morris has bought 96.65 per cent of Colombia's biggest cigarette manufacturer, Coltabaco, for US$ 299.6 million, the Colombian...
The Russian State Duma has approved the first reading of the revised law on advertising which includes stricter regulations regarding tobacco ads.
Altria Group Inc., the parent of Philip Morris, is close to signing a deal with the Chinese government allowing Marlboro cigarettes to be manufactured and sold...
A federal appeals court on 20 April 2005 declined to reconsider a recent ruling that prevented the US government from seeking US$ 280 billion in past profits...