Smokeless tobacco company UST on Monday said it will move its headquarters to Stamford, Connecticut, from nearby Greenwich in a cost-saving move.
Archive - November 2006
The US Supreme Court let stand on Monday a ruling that threw out a US$ 10.1 billion verdict against Philip Morris USA in a lawsuit that accused the Altria...
The Latvian health ministry is coming up with a suggestion to promptly increase excise tax rates for tobacco products to LVL 10 (Euro 14.3) per 1,000...
The government-owned enterprise Minsk Printing-house has purchased an offset press for making cigarette packaging that would be supplied to local tobacco...
The Ukrainian association of tobacco makers, Ukrtyutyun, which incorporates all major cigarette manufacturers, posted an output of 84.7 billion cigarettes over...
The Saskatchewan government will soon be able to sue tobacco companies to recover the health care costs from smoking.
BAT is launching the manufacturing of its renowned international brand Dunhill in Russia, said the managing director for BAT Russia, John Taylor.
The St Petersburg-based tobacco maker Nevo-Tabak has won a government-staged tender for cigarette supplies to the Russian army, reports Vedomosti daily...
The EU Court has ruled cross-border Internet shopping for tobacco is not legal.
Two years after the government buyout, US tobacco acreage and production appear to be on the upswing, at least in some parts of the country, says Kelly Tiller...
Tobacco use is declining steadily in the United States. It is banned in public places and many restaurants and bars across the nation. Now a new Zogby...
Indonesian lawmakers are drafting a bill that would ban tobacco companies from advertising or sponsoring sporting and entertainment events, local media...
Malawi's proceeds from tobacco have gone down by US$ 2 million this year compared to the revenues last year, the country's official tobacco...
The union health ministry would revisit orders relating to printing of statutory warning on bidi (tendu leaf) bundles as well as the size and space it should...
Oslo-based marketer of premium snus tobacco products Taboca today announced that Richard C. Cutler has joined the company as executive vice president, business...
Two years after Altria’s management announced, publicly for the first time, that it was considering the separation of the company into two, potentially three...
Excise duty on cigarettes will rise to 54 per cent from 2007, compared to 48 per cent at present, the cabinet decided on 9 November.
The French government issued a decree that bans smoking in "all enclosed and roofed places, which are open to the public or which are places of work".
Global tobacco company British American Tobacco has been ordered to stop supplying novelty wallet packs of cigarettes after the nation's consumer watchdog...
A federal appeals court has decided to review a lower court ruling that let a US$ 200 billion lawsuit filed by 'light' cigarette smokers proceed as a...