The Canadian province of Ontario has issued a law, effective Wednesday, which bans smoking in cars with children as passengers.
Archive - January 2009
Germany’s state of Bavaria is relaxing its strict smoking ban as of August, and the government of the City of Berlin also wants to change the tough...
The country’s highest Islamic authority, the Indonesian Ulema Council, issued several edicts last Sunday that, among others, partially ban smoking.
The court ruled that the provisions dealing with the two issues were beyond the competency of the powers conferred by the Anti-Smoking Act and against the...
Smokers in Saudi Arabia will have to pay an increased premium for their health insurance policies, the country’s health minister, Hamad Al-Manie, said.
Tobacco companies will be banned from sponsoring mass events to prevent them from promoting their products, the ministry for health, welfare and family affairs...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that the global financial crisis may spark a rise in mental illness and health problems as people turn to...
Almost a year after the introduction of graphic health warnings, the number of smokers in New Zealand has decreased.
Graphic warning labels will be put on cigarette packs in Cambodia beginning next month if the government approves a plan by the ministry of health...
The Turkish subsidiary of Japan Tobacco International (JTI) will invest USD 200 million (EUR 154 million) in Turkey between 2009 and 2011.
Conwood, the smokeless-tobacco subsidiary of Reynolds American, is preparing for its second major production expansion in less than two years.
Farmers in Tanauan City (Batangas) have successfully grown vegetables using tobacco rejects as organic fertilisers.
The government of Abu Dhabi will ban smoking in public places this month, according to a senior municipality official.
A pack of Marlboros now costs EUR 3.10, an increase of three per cent. "No other company has yet announced they will follow suit, but we are...
Scandinavian Tobacco Group announced on Thursday that it has bought two family-owned cigar factories in Central America.
Forty-two states have reached a settlement with Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company after the company violated the Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) by...
Taiwan's new Tobacco Hazard Prevention Act will take effect on 11 January 2009.
British American Tobacco Malaysia managing director Jack Bowles expects legal cigarette sales volume in 2009 to be affected by the large tax-led prices and the...
Cigarette sales in France dropped to a record low in 2008, research by British American Tobacco (BAT) shows.
As of 1 January 2009, Delaware, Iowa, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Texas require stores to sell fire-safe cigarettes only.