China's top legislature has ratified the World Health Organisation’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC).
Archive - August 2005
Tobacco advertising has been banned in Eritrea after tough new anti-smoking regulations, including a ban on lighting up in most public places, took effect this...
The Malaysian cabinet decision to defer the ban on the sale of 14-stick cigarette packs, or small packs, to 2010 could be the much-needed boost to cigarette...
Belarusian cabinet issued a decree on raising once again the quota on cigarette import for the current year.
Cigarette-maker Vector Group has filed a suit against the state of Kentucky for allegedly violating the tobacco industry's landmark 1998 settlement by...
Cigarette makers must pay US$ 424 million to tobacco growers in 14 states as part of an agreement reached in the wake of 1998s multibillion-dollar anti-smoking...
Spare parts supplier Barton Carbide Tooling has aquired Neat Engineering for an undisclosed sum.
Philip Morris has launched a state-of-the-art cast leaf plant at its manufacturing facility in Seremban, Negri Sembilan.
The Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday reversed a US$ 1 billion judgement against State Farm Insurance in a class-action lawsuit alleging the company bought...
A federal judge in Tennessee on 17 August 2005 dismissed a lawsuit challenging Philip Morris USA's wholesale leaders program
The US justice department told a judge on Monday it had shown cigarette makers engaged in a 50-year scheme to deceive consumers about smoking's dangers...
The California Supreme Court on Thursday let stand a lower court's decision that cut in half a US$ 100 million punitive damages award to a sick smoker who...
Wellington's stake in Swedish Match previously stood at 0.4 per cent as of 30 June this year, according to data provided by SIS share ownership...
The Russian market is strategically important to Alcan and this investment allows Alcan Packaging to be represented in the Russian market. The new plant will...
The five biggest tobacco companies spent US$ 15.2 billion on US advertising and promotion of cigarettes in 2003, an increase of more than 20 per cent from a...
Fuel shortage being experienced in the country is affecting preparations for the forthcoming tobacco- planting season, the Zimbabwe Association of Tobacco...
Match and tobacco maker Swedish Match has sold the New York office of its US unit General Cigars to Rockrose Corp for US$ 70 million, the company said today.
United Seniors Association (USA) today announced it has filed a lawsuit against the major American tobacco companies in the United States District Court in...