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...