About 10,000 people, mainly tobacco sellers, marched through Paris on Wednesday to protest the smoking ban in cafes that will go into effect in January.
Archive - December 2007
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an early warning about Pfizer Inc's anti-smoking drug Chantix, amid reports of suicidal thoughts...
Imperial Tobacco announced that the US National Association of Attorneys General has approved its application to join the Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) as...
The State Tobacco Monopoly Administration (STMA) approved the establishment in North Korea of a joint venture, Pyongyang White Mountain Tobacco Co., by Jilin...
Luxury goods giant Compagnie Financiere Richemont said today that it is considering splitting off its luxury goods operations from a 19.3 per cent stake in...
Italy's Senate has approved an amendment to the 2008 budget that would introduce collective class action lawsuits to Italy's legal system for the...
The Altadis board of directors has unanimously approved the takeover bid by Imperial Tobacco and recommends the offer to its shareholders.
Altria Group Inc announced on Tuesday that it would sell its headquarters on Park Avenue in Manhattan for US$ 525 million to a unit of the private real estate...
Union Engineering a/s of Denmark, a global market leader in CO2 plants, announced the acquisition of Airco DIET, a supplier of tobacco expansion plants.
The national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that reduced spending on anti-tobacco campaigns and bigger marketing budgets from cigarette...
The Dubai Municipality (DM) has given a one-year ‘grace’ period to cafes that serve shisha or hookah in the open to make arrangements for indoor serving.
The Nigerian government has filed a suit against three tobacco companies, seeking 5.3 trillion naira (US$ 42 billion) in damages for public health costs for...
British American Tobacco asserted that it will not pay the higher excise tax rate of PHP 26.06 (US$ 0.61) per pack.
The World Health Organization has urged the Philippine government to raise the excise tax on cigarettes, saying the low tax in the country was not helping the...
A House of Representatives group has proposed a bill on tobacco control, which would ban cigarette advertisements and the sale of cigarettes to minors, as well...