The government plans to impose a floor price for all cigarettes as part of efforts to decrease the number of youths smoking.
Archive - October 2008
Tobacco farmers agreed to an anti-smoking campaign aimed at restricting children's access to cigarettes, saying they the movement will not lead to a ...
Hungary's government has objected to a European Union directive which will raise the excise duty on tobacco by 2014, the finance ministry said on Monday.
Netherlands-based tobacco machinery manufacturer ITM Group and UK supplier of conveyor systems FlexLink have announced that they will cooperate.
The state government will rectify a clause in its anti-tobacco advertising legislation that would have bypassed existing ad bans and allowed tobacco companies...
The department of health has argued for increasing cigarette taxes by TWD 10 (EUR 0.24), amid reports of a soaring number of underage smokers in Taiwan.
With the introduction of a new anti-smoking bylaw on 22 October Surabaya, Indonesia’s second-largest city, will impose sanctions on people caught smoking in...
The department of finance has submitted a bill to the house of representatives that would impose a uniform excise tax on nearly all cigarette brands starting...
The house of representatives on Tuesday passed an anti-smoking bill which prohibits the smoking of tobacco in public places across the country.
The provincial administration of East Java has obtained IDR 135.8 billion (EUR 10.3 million) for its 2009 budget from cigarette excise taxes to set up smoking...
Cigarette manufacturers, wholesale tobacco dealers and leaf trading centres will expand their exposure by a fourth in terms of financing and farm area coverage.
British American Tobacco warned that governments worldwide will this year lose around USD 20 billion (EUR 15.1 billion) in unpaid tobacco taxes due to...
The recently introduced graphic health warnings do not affect the number of smokers, nor cigarette sales, a study by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization...
Small-scale tobacco growers may fail to transplant their crop in time due to fertilizer shortages.
The health ministry has modified the packaging and labelling rules for tobacco products and now allows manufacturers to display specified health warnings on...
On 1 October 2008, the Oettinger Davidoff Group acquired Camacho Cigars, the latter company announced in a press release on Monday.
Ras Al Khaimah has become the latest emirate in the UAE to introduce a ban in public places.
The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has issued a ruling on how it would compute the tax share of four Virginia tobacco provinces from excise tax collections...
PT Bentoel Prima, the fourth largest cigarette producer in Indonesia, has restructured its focus toward efficiency as the global economy worsens in the wake of...
A study conducted by the University of the Philippines has found the current cigarette tax structure to be ineffective in curbing smoking.