The Supreme Court has declared as constitutional a section of the tax code that levies higher taxes on cigarette brands introduced to the market after...
Archive - August 2008
Lawmakers are calling for graphic-based health warnings on cigarette packs and are poised to file a bill which advocates plain packaging reports the Philippine...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the federal circuit overturned a previous ruling in favour of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco on Monday in a patent lawsuit filed by...
The government has set up a Rs 5,000-crore (EUR 776 million) fund to finance tobacco farmers diversifying into other crops such as oilseeds, soybeans and...
Hongyun Group and Honghe Group, two major tobacco firms based in southwest China's Yunnan province, plan to merge to form the world's fourth-largest...
A Vermont judge has ruled that a lawsuit challenging claims by tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds that its Eclipse cigarette is healthier to smoke than the average...
British American Tobacco (BAT) has pulled its Pall Mall brand from the Philippine market due to a high excise tax rate imposed on imported cigarette...
The European Commission announced on Tuesday that all cigarettes sold in Europe will have to be ‘fire-safe’ by 2011.
State lawmakers in New York have given final passage to a measure that would end tax-free cigarette sales by Native American retailers to non-tribal members.
The ban on public smoking will be extended to parks, a Dubai Municipality official said.
The Ukrainian parliament adopted a bill on amendments to the state budget 2008 and will raise excise tax rates for tobacco products on 1 September 2008.
A four-day workshop on the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in Jamaica has opened with an assertion by the government that anti-smoking legislation will...
Graphic health warnings will be required on all tobacco products in Bahrain.
The US House of Representatives voted 326 to 102 to pass the Family Smoking Prevention Tobacco Control Act.
Access to cigarettes will be severely restricted and smoking in cars with children under 16 will be banned under new tobacco laws approved by the New South...
Imperial Tobacco said in a statement last week that it purchased the remaining 57 per cent of Swedish snuff maker Skruf in June for a “non-material”...
An Irish member of the European Parliament (MEP), Avril Doyle, has called for legislation to make it illegal to sell cigarettes and cigars within the European...
The bill is designed to create legal measures to prevent the sale of cigarettes to minors under the age of 18, limit smoking and generate additional...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has awarded the hosting of a major international conference on tobacco control to South Africa.
Germany's highest court has upheld complaints by owners of one-room pubs and nightclubs against smoking bans in two states, in a ruling with nationwide...