Between 2005 and 2008 the number of untaxed cigarettes smoked in Germany has risen from 16 to 20 per cent, according to the Hamburg Institute of International...
Archive - January 2010
Tobacco plants could help wean the world from fossil fuels, according to scientists from the University of California, Berkeley.
New York City can’t use a federal racketeering law to accuse discount cigarette retailers of evading hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes on Internet...
Kwak Young-kyoon, President of KT&G, South Korea's foremost tobacco company, and Andrew Lochrie, regional director of Asia & Pacific at Imperial Tobacco...
It's not likely the manufacturers will collaborate on their efforts to convince the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to position smokeless tobacco as...
Starting January, Arkansas, Michigan, North Carolina, Virginia, Alabama, Nebraska, Tennessee, Missouri, Florida, New Mexico, South Carolina and Georgia have...
The total health burden of obesity has surpassed the total health impact of smoking, according to the Department of Biostatistics at the Mailman School of...
Swedish Match AB has signed a letter of intent with Scandinavian Tobacco Group to form a company combining the tobacco businesses of STG with the premium and...
American tobacco giant Philip Morris' legal troubles in Thailand appear to have deepened, with a commerce ministry probe having determined that the firm...
The price of a packet of 20 cigarettes should double to about AED 14 (EUR 2.68), the ministry of health (MoH) has proposed, to help get people to ditch the...
Norway has dropped 17 tobacco companies, including top cigarette makers like Altria, Lorillard, Philip Morris and British American Tobacco, from its USD 450...
China is the world's largest consumer of tobacco and home to some 350 million smokers. Current legislation bans smoking in certain public places, but...
In his book, Ecrasons la cigarette pas les fumeurs (Crush cigarettes, not smokers), Dr. Jean-Jacques Bourque asserts that many smokers are not able to quit...
The United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the FDA may not regulate e-cigarettes as drugs or medical devices.
The government’s ban on smoking in public places took effect on 1 January 2010 but around the country, people can still be found smoking in parks, stations...
Indian tobacco-to-hotels conglomerate ITC is apparently up in arms against foreign investment in cigarette manufacturing, its principal profit source.
The tax increases in tobacco products have spurred a price war between the sector's three main players.
Amcor announced that it has received European Commission approval to proceed with the acquisition of the European businesses of Alcan Packaging that Amcor is...
Japan, long considered a smokers' paradise, is planning to raise tobacco tax from next October in a bid to repair its tattered public finances, officials...
The new floor price for a 20-pack of cigarettes at MYR 6.40 (EUR 1.32) is a positive development for the tobbaco sector as it will narrow the gap between...