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...
Archive - June 2005
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...
Nanjing Cigarette Factory in east China's Jiangsu Province - one of the 36 key Chinese tobacco manufacturers designated by the State Tobacco Monopoly...
German flavour manufacturer Hertz & Selck has announced the appointment of Lutz Dörning as managing director.
Canada's health minister Ujjal Dosanjh today announced the enactment of regulations intended to reduce the risk of fire caused by lit cigarettes.
At the urging of Democratic lawmakers, the justice department agreed to look into whether political interference influenced the government's decision to...
The Reemtsma-Kyiv cigarette making plant is planning to make 20.5 billion cigarettes by the end of 2005, 10 per cent more year-on-year, the company’s CEO...
British American Tobacco will move its Asian headquarters to Hong Kong from Kuala Lumpur in the third quarter of this year, a spokesman for the UK tobacco...
During closing arguments on 7 June 2005 in a racketeering lawsuit against tobacco companies, federal prosecutors reduced their demand for smoking-cessation...
Speciality filter manufacturer Filtrona was demerged from its parent company Bunzl today.
Altadis has announced that it will propose a change of board structure at its AGM on 29 June, which will end its current co-chairman system.
Indonesia's move to raise cigarette prices next month in a bid to boost tax revenues will hurt consumer demand and hit tobacco industry profits in the...
Forcing cigarette makers to spend billions of dollars on a stop-smoking campaign would be an ineffective way to curb future wrongdoing, an economist testified...