Ukrainian lawmakers passed a law significantly restricting the advertising of cigarettes and alcohol, including a ban on outdoor billboards.
Archive - March 2008
Malawi's tobacco auction floors resumed sales on Tuesday after tobacco farmers forced a suspension last week in protest against a drop in prices, reports...
Liggett Group has announced that it will voluntarily convert the production of its domestic cigarette brands to comply with state cigarette fire safety...
The Union minister for health and family welfare, Anbumani Ramadoss confirmed that all tobacco products are to carry statutory warnings including pictures on...
Dawn Primarolo, the UK's public health minister, has proposed placing cigarettes beneath shop counters while supermarkets and corner shops should be...
Imperial Tobacco said Monday that it has agreed to sell its 49.95-per-cent stake in airport duty free retailer Aldeasa to Autogrill Espana for Euro 275 million...
The government of Quebec decided to impose stricter controls on the advertising and sale of tobacco products.
The duty on tobacco was raised yesterday, adding GBP 0.11 (USD 0.22) to the price of a packet of 20 cigarettes and GBP 0.04 to five cigars.
Altria Group plans to save as much as USD 2 billion annually following the spin-off of its Philip Morris International (PMI) unit.
R.J. Reynolds is expanding its test of its Camel Snus product to 10 new large cities, reports CSNews Online.
Profits for the state-owned Thailand Tobacco Monopoly (TTM) are expected to fall more than half to just THB two billion (EUR 41.5 million) per year within five...
British American Tobacco (BAT) will spend KES 100 million (EUR 1.03 million) to comply with the national Tobacco Control Act, which will come into force in...
In Germany, 465 million contraband cigarettes were seized by customs authorities in 2007.
The Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Ministry proposes to ban 'surrogate' advertising of tobacco and liquor companies in print, electronic and...
British American Tobacco plans to acquire the entire cigarette segment from Skandinavisk Tobakskompagni (ST) and certain snus and roll-your-own tobacco...
A regional judge has allowed tobacco firms to advertise their products on outdoor billboards as long as the sign is within the store premises.
The excise duty on smaller non-filter cigarettes (not exceeding 60 mm length) has been increased nearly five times to INR 819 (EUR 13.50) per 1,000 cigarettes...
A ban on smoking in enclosed public places in Geneva, including bars and restaurants, will go into effect in July.
Starting in May, the Liggett Group will test market a snus product under its Grand Prix brand.
The board of directors of GTC Industries, India's fourth-largest cigarette manufacturer, approved the separation of the company's tobacco and real...