The US Supreme Court said on Tuesday that it would hear Philip Morris USA's appeal of a ruling that upheld a US$ 79.5 million punitive damages award to an...
Archive - May 2006
The governor of Illinois has signed legislation that will require cigarettes sold there to be made with special paper designed to self-extinguish when they are...
A ban on smoking in Kenya's public places has come into force. From Monday, anyone smoking in offices, bus stations, airports and sports venue faces a...
ITC, which sells seven of every 10 cigarettes in India, had a 36 per cent gain in profit in the first quarter of 2006 before a one-time expense, as demand for...
According to a Sofia New Agency report, Bulgaria's tobacco monopoly Bulgartabac, which is planned to be privatised, has registered a 30 per cent loss over...
Imperial Tobacco Group today announces that, as part of the planned and orderly succession at senior board level, its non-executive chairman, Derek Bonham...
The Indian government has put a lid on the plans of Universal Leaf Tobacco to commence operations in India.
The High Court in Kenya has given the go ahead for a peasant farmer, Amos Weru Murigu, to sue British American Tobacco following the loss of his left leg to a...
A re-styled version of Philip Morris' flagship brand L&M has been introduced to the press last week and is to be launched on the Russian market in a...
Cigarette maker Reynolds American said on Tuesday it had received antitrust approval from US regulators for its US$ 3.5 billion purchase of Conwood, the number...