KT&G, the market leader in South Korea, is accused of taking down competitors' advertising material and pressuring small retailers to sell only KT&G...
Archive - June 2008
Starting 1 August, cigarette packages in Egypt will be required to carry images of the effects of smoking.
The House of Representatives rejected a plan by the Senate to restrict smoking in restaurants, since it wants cantonal authorities to have the final say in the...
All foreign currency payments for tobacco sold in Malawi will now be made through the central bank, the Daily Times said, citing a statement from the...
Manual auctions were replaced by an electronic auction system at the Tobacco Board platform reports the website Business Standard.
The Supreme Court said it will review a USD 79.5 million (EUR 51.4 million) punitive damages judgment against Philip Morris for the third time, the Associated...
The Pakistani ministry of health has planned to amend national regulations regarding health warnings on tobacco products to meet the requirements of the...
The European Commission delayed its decision on whether British American Tobacco can buy Skandinavisk Tobakskompagni's cigarette assets for GBP 2 billion...
The excise department is planning to reduce base valuation prices used for calculating taxes on cigarettes following complaints from cigarette importers of...
The Ohio Supreme Court has rejected an appeal to exempt veterans halls and other private clubs from the state’s smoking ban.
A group of Japanese lawmakers on Friday called for an increase in cigarette taxes in a bid to cover increasing social security costs, Agence France-Presse...
The city council of Lusaka – the capital of Zambia – has introduced on 29 May new legislation banning smoking in public places.
Rising sales of other tobacco products (OTP) than cigarettes have offset the decline in cigarette sales by 30 per cent in the United States, according to a...
In a budget speech, the finance advisor Mirza Azizul Islam, proposed the surcharge in the interest of public health. He also proposed to impose an...
The first official statistics revealed a sharp drop in revenue for German bar owners since the state smoking bans took effect last year.
AMVIG Holdings said it has agreed to purchase the entire issued share capital of Purple Art for CNH 350 million (EUR 32 million), or HKD 390 million.
Cigarette tax increases force New York and Vermont smokers to pay higher prices.
Tobacco One announced that they have entered into an agreement to purchase a leading US tobacco product manufacturer for USD 9.5 Million (EUR 6.03 Million).
The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) is set to implement its plan to strictly monitor the tax payments of cigarette and liquor companies.
In a written notice, social welfare minister Nicholas Goche accused aid groups of violating the terms of their agreement with the government. and added that...