India is expected to export a record USD 600 million of tobacco in 2008/09, as a shortfall in global output boosted demand and pushed up prices to new highs.
Archive - July 2008
Philip Morris USA has ended its test of Marlboro-branded cigarettes that use a high-technology filter, a company spokesman confirmed on Monday.
Trends indicate that smokers hit by the rising cigarette prices in India have shifted to so called down market options like bidis and Gutkas, resulting in an...
EU anti-trust regulators have approved the purchase of Skandinavisk Tobakskompagni's cigarette business by British American Tobacco (BAT).
The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation is calling for changes to a House tobacco-regulation bill, demanding that the legislation place restrictions on...
Tobacco One announced that they have purchased a regionally popular cigarette brand from a Mexico City businessman for cash plus common stock.
Chewing tobacco and snuff are less dangerous than cigarettes but the smokeless products still raise the risk of oral cancer by 80 per cent, the World Health...
Health Minister Michael McGimpsey has announced that the legal age for purchasing tobacco products in Northern Ireland will be raised from 16 to 18.
Japan Tobacco said Monday it will recall some 40,000 giveaway ashtrays it distributed in northern, western and southwestern Japan regions as they may be...
The campaign to reduce teenage smoking has stalled according to new data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Effective immediately, all forms of tobacco product advertising are prohibited as mandated by the Tobacco Regulation Act of 2003.