Altria Group said on Thursday that its Philip Morris International unit plans to sell its stake in a Dominican Republic beer business and gain full ownership...
Archive - November 2006
The Tobacco and Alcohol Act will be effective in full force from 1 December in Sri Lanka.
As smoking cigarette and chewing Khad (narcotic leaves) or trading them were banned in Somalia's Lower Jubba province, southern Somalia, by the Union of...
The Ukrainian ad market risks to shrink by 20 per cent overnight in case the ban of tobacco ads that is under consideration in Ukrainian parliament
The Latvian health ministry has come up with tougher anti-tobacco regulations.
Zimbabwe's Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) has so far disbursed US$ 875 million to tobacco farmers for the purchase of inputs under its...
Consumers in Britain may soon be able to buy reduced-price cigarettes and alcohol delivered from mainland Europe.
South African Revenue Services officials halted all operations at Mastermind Tobacco Company in Wilsonia amid a Rand 57 million fraud case against its...
The Democratic takeover of congress is likely to improve prospects for proposed federal regulation of cigarettes, an issue of key importance to Richmond...
Madrid fixed at Euro 70 per 1,000 cigarettes one of two taxes on tobacco from Euro 55 previously.
A bill on amendments to the existing laws referring to tobacco and alcohol manufacturing and trade has been submitted by president Yuschenko for parliamentary...
Three of Canada's largest tobacco companies will stop describing their cigarettes as 'light' or 'mild' by the middle of next year...
The lower house of the German parliament has voted overwhelmingly in favour of a ban on tobacco advertising that would bring it in line with European Union...
Spanish-French tobacco company Altadis announced that net profit fell 19.9 per cent to Euro 339.1 million in the nine months to September 2006, which is at the...
In several US states, voters yesterday also decided on changes in tobacco taxation.
New Zealand's government has approved plans to replace the current text warnings on cigarette packets with pictorial warnings, covering 30 per cent of the...
Indian cigarette manufacturer ITC has increased its shareholding in King Maker Marketing (KMM) of the US from 50 per cent to 50.98 per cent, effective 25...
In India, scenes depicting smoking on television or in advertisements may now result in penal punishment.
Eighteen million counterfeit cigarettes went up in smoke this week when customs and excise officials burned the contraband on a farm in Cato Ridge.
Shops that sell cigarettes to children are to be banned from selling any tobacco products, under a stringent new law designed to crack down on under-age...