Walt Disney Co. is to become the first major Hollywood studio to ban depictions of smoking.
Archive - July 2007
On Monday the governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, signed legislation that will ban smoking in public places as of 1 January 2008.
Only 52 tonnes of burley tobacco has been delivered to the Burley Marketing Zimbabwe auction floors, as transport difficulties continue to hamper deliveries of...
The government decided to amend the law to introduce warnings on tobacco product packages but made it clear that display of the skull and cross-bone sign would...
Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska signed safer-cigarette legislation into law on Wednesday.
Philip Morris International (PMI) has announced that it is to acquire an additional 30 per cent in its Mexican tobacco business, for a price of approximately...
Hauni has announced the launch of its new non-tobacco related materials (NTRM) detection and ejection system, the Tobaccoscan 5.
The number of cigarettes confiscated by Austrian authorities at border crossings and elsewhere declined significantly during the first half of 2007, according...
Imperial Tobacco has announced its offer to acquire Spanish-French tobacco company Altadis SA for € 50 per share.
The House of Representatives working committee has agreed with a government proposal that excise duty on tobacco products be capped at a maximum of 57 per cent.
From January to June 2007, China's tobacco industry registered more than RMB 200 billion (USD 26.5 billion) in pre-tax profits, up 26 per cent from 2006...
The Senate health committee said on 12 July it will take action next week on a bill that would let the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulate cigarettes.
A new cigarette packaging plant, built by tobacco packaging company Amcor Rentsch Europe under a EUR 30 million investment plan, will be opened in the village...
Officials from 146 countries agreed to push for legislation to ban smoking in public places, to enforce the laws once passed and to negotiate a global treaty...
The bill on excise taxation policy for the period 2007-2010 went into effect in Russia on 1 July.
The cigarette production in Belarus increased by 18.8 per cent in January-May 2007 from the same period of 2006, reports tobacco trade news group, Rustabak.
The draft bill would lead to increasing taxes on these items if the National Legislative Assembly makes them law. The current ceiling for excise tax on...
The Philippine government has implemented the Tobacco Regulation Act of 2003, which went into effect on July 1.
Philip Morris USA and other cigarette makers argued Tuesday that a federal judge erred in 2006 when it granted class-action status to a lawsuit over tobacco...
Imperial Tobacco faces legal action for using the ‘Quitline’ telephone number on a 40th-anniversary insert in Escort cigarette packets.