R.J. Reynolds is introducing three dissolvable smokeless prodcuts in test markets.
Archive - October 2008
New information suggests that Tony Blair personally intervened when he was Britain's prime minister to secure Formula One's exemption from the...
The Tobacco Industry Marketing Board (TIMB) will hold two flue-cured tobacco auction mop-up sales in October.
Richemont SA and Remgro investors backed a plan to spin off their British American Tobacco (BAT) stake.
Lawyers for Altria went before the Supreme Court on Monday to argue that Washington is to blame if anyone felt tricked into thinking that light cigarettes were...
In response to the credit crunch, Imperial Tobacco plans to launch a new economy brand, JPS Silver, on 3 November 2008.
The Tobacco Board has decided to re-impose penalties on growers in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka who produce more flue-cured tobacco than has been authorised.
Japan Tobacco will enlist customers in a campaign to stop the government from increasing cigarette taxes.
The Ministry of Health, under the Prohibition of Smoking in Public Places Rules, 2008, has banned tobacco consumption in all government or private buildings as...
Cigarettes for sale in Australia will be subject to stringent new regulations to reduce the fire risk from smouldering butts.
Electronic cigarettes do not help smokers quit as marketers claim and may be toxic, the World Health Organization (WHO) recently announced.
Philip Morris USA has filed a suit in federal court to overturn a controversial San Francisco ordinance that would ban the sale of tobacco products in...
New Zealand’s Commerce Commission has issued warnings to three major tobacco companies that the use of the terms 'light' and 'mild'...
Philip Morris International has purchased a large percentage of shares in Medicago, a Canadian firm, which plans to make vaccines from tobacco leaves.
A study by the University of California at Los Angeles finds that light cigarettes deliver nearly as much nicotine to the brain as regular cigarettes.
A U.S. District Court judge denied the request by Philip Morris USA to temporarily delay a ban on tobacco sales at convenience drugstores in San Francisco.
Health Secretary Francisco Duque appealed to the legislators to hasten the passage of House Bill No. 3364, or the Graphic Health Warning Bill.
Tobacco acreage in South Carolina has declined by more than half between 1993 and 2007.
Images of diseased lungs, rotting teeth and throat cancer have been placed on cigarette packets as of 1 October in the UK.