Kentucky can continue to enforce laws requiring small cigarette companies to make payments to help cover smoking-related health costs, a federal appeals court...
Archive - October 2006
Indian cigarette manufacturer ITC has recorded an 18.7 per cent jump in its earnings for the second quarter, backed by strong revenues from cigarettes and...
Franco-Spanish tobacco firm Altadis has sold the remaining part of an old factory it owned in Valencia to property company Guadalmina for Euro 52 million (US$...
Britain's Imperial Tobacco, the world's fourth-biggest cigarette firm, said it was seeking acquisitions but there was not much on the horizon as it...
The question of whether juries should be allowed to award massive punitive damages is at stake when the US Supreme Court hears arguments over an US$ 80 million...
British American Tobacco said on 26 October 2006 that third-quarter profit edged higher after the company cut costs and boosted margins.
Early October has seen a surge in launch of new premium cigarette brands on the Russian market.
Tobacco growers at Myrtleford, in north-eastern Victoria, will meet this afternoon to decide on their future.
Lorillard Tobacco Company said on Wednesday it will develop and sell smokeless tobacco products in the United States with Swedish Match, making it the second...
KT&G is gearing up to tap into the world's biggest duty free cigarette market, Europe, to expand its overseas sales.
The Altria Group moved closer to spinning off its Kraft Foods unit yesterday, despite concerns about tobacco litigation, saying it would make a final decision...
In November Philip Morris will launch Parliament Reserve cigarettes in Moscow, a pack of which costs 200 rubles, said a source familiar with the plans of the...
The legislative council of Hong Kong approved a law that will require virtually all workplaces, including restaurants and bars, to be smokefree.
Germans are spending less on cigarettes but more on cigars as the country wrestles with the idea of introducing a ban on smoking in public places.
A combination of fewer smokers and more illegal cigarettes for sale in Ontario resulted in a C$ 73.4-million drop in provincial tax revenues in the last year...
RJ Reynolds Tobacco filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday that seeks to invalidate a Seattle city ordinance and a county health board regulation that ban the...
British American Tobacco exits Formula One at the Brazilian Grand Prix this weekend after eight years of Lucky Strike sponsorship – and...
RJ Reynolds is discontinuing the production of certain types of its flavoured cigarettes, such as its Mandarin Mint Camel Exotic Blends and Midnight Berry Kool...
Pakistan's Central Board of Revenue (CBR) has directed tax authorities in North West Frontier Province to ensure registration of all green leaf threshing...
Nearly one in four cigarettes smoked in Ontario and Quebec is illegal, according to a new study by Canada's largest tobacco company.