A California agency voted on Thursday to classify second-hand tobacco smoke as a "toxic air contaminant", a first-in-the-nation move that could...
Archive - January 2006
Cigarette maker Philip Morris USA on Thursday said it agreed to suspend shipments to customers that states find have illegally sold cigarettes over the...
Austrian Mayr-Melnhof Karton, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of cartonboard on the basis of recycled fibres, has declared its interest in the...
The Krasnoyarsk regional government that owns the majority stake in the cigarette making plant located in Kansk is planning to start the facility’s...
A new law on smoking ban in public places took effect in Georgia on 23 January 2006.
Wattenspapier, a supplier of plug wrap and member of the Austrian Trierenberg group, announced that it has signed a joint venture contract with the...
In response to Friday’s large tax increase and failure to introduce a minimum tax PMI is actually cutting its cigarette prices substantially in Spain.
The Lithuanian government approved amendments to the law on tobacco control imposing a ban on tobacco smoking in all public catering and entertainment...
According to the press service of the Ukrainian tobacco trade association Ukrtutun, tobacco plant Reemtsma-Kyiv made 23.8 billion cigarettes over 2005, 16.6...
Renova Development, part of the Renova Group owned by the Russian tycoon Victor Vekselberg, which controls Russia's second-biggest aluminum producer Sual...
The programme for the restructuring and privatisation of Bulgaria's tobacco monopoly Bulgartabac will be presented next week and then reviewed by the...
Rob Zwarts, CEO of the Scandinavian Tobacco Cigar Group, has been elected as president of the European Cigar Manufacturers Association (ECMA).
A group of heavy Marlboro smokers filed a lawsuit in federal court on Thursday, asking Philip Morris USA to pay for screenings that may detect the early stages...
Business tycoon Anton Rupert, whose family controls Cie. Financiere Richemont, died in his sleep at his home in Stellenbosch, South Africa, last night at the...
According to a statistical report for the first eleven months of 2005, cigarette imports into Russia have increased from US$ 47.7 million to US$ 66.4 million...
Imperial has launched a new low-price UK cigarette brand, Windsor Blue.
KT&G Corp, South Korea's main tobacco and ginseng maker, has no plan to float its ginseng unit in the near future despite a request from US investor Carl...
The official ban on smoking at central government offices came into effect today, with tough measures to be taken against any violators - including the...