A move by the Canadian parliament to keep flavoured cigarettes away from children is coming under fire from members of the US Congress amid charges it...
Archive - June 2009
The verdict is out – a jury in Maryland ruled against Star Scientific in its lawsuit with Reynolds American Inc in a patent dispute over reducing...
British American Tobacco (BAT) will pay USD 494 million for 85 per cent of Indonesia’s PT Bentoel Internasional Investama.
Tribac operates in several parts of the world, including Malawi, Zambia, China and India. In addition the JT Group will enter into a long-term agreement with...
Top New York court says New York City lacks legal standing to sue Internet cigarette retailers for lost taxes.
US Senate cleared the final hurdle to enable the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to partially control nicotine content and the constituents of cigarettes as...
Japan Tobacco International (JTI), the third largest player on the Romanian cigarette market, will invest EUR 30 million in two new production lines at its...
The government is set to increase the excise rate on cigarettes by 10 per cent next year, reports the Jakarta Post.
Major US, Canadian and British life and health insurance companies have billions of dollars invested in tobacco companies, a study published Wednesday in the...
Philip Morris International (PMI) has sold a 10.8-per-cent-stake in Godfrey Philips India (GPI) to KK Modi IFS, its partner in the Indian joint venture.
Governor Charlie Crist signed into law a cigarette tax hike of USD 1 (EUR 0.72) per pack, the biggest of its kind in Florida history.
In ruling against RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company, a six-person jury today in state court in Pensacola, Florida, found that the company's conspiracy to...
The British Medical Association (BMA) is urging MPs to support proposals in the Health Bill which is debated in the House of Commons for the first time today...
The WHO will mark its No Tobacco Day, 31 May, with events across the globe and the kickoff to a new campaign promoting the use of pictorial warnings on tobacco...
Rotherham in South Yorkshire is to give pregnant women shopping vouchers worth up to GBP 40.00 (EUR 45.60) if they quit smoking.
The Canadian government on Tuesday proposed a ban on fruit-flavoured cigarettes and small cigars, reports Reuters.
Vendors caught selling packs without the pictorial warning would be fined MYR 10,000 (EUR 2,080) or two years' jail, or both under the Control of Tobacco...