The government and the nation's biggest cigarette maker separately asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a racketeering verdict.
Archive - February 2010
Altria Group, the owner of Philip Morris USA, announced that it plans to expand its Marlboro snus smokeless tobacco nationwide, according to a report by...
The sales value of tobacco products decreased by more than 10 per cent after stricter anti-smoking measures and higher tobacco taxes were implemented last...
Star Scientific filed an application with the FDA for approval to market Ariva-BDL as a "modified risk" tobacco product under the Family Smoking...
The Philippine unit of Philip Morris International and Fortune Tobacco Corp will combine their operations in a new company in which both firms will have equal...
The Utah House committee approved a bill that increases the state tobacco tax by USD 1.00 a pack, reports the Associated Press.
The Canadian government asked the Supreme Court to overturn British Columbia court rulings that could force it to share financial responsibility for damages...
Schweitzer-Mauduit International yesterday announced that it filed a patent infringement action against the Delfort Group, Astra Tobacco Corporation, Julius...
Imperial Tobacco said yesterday that it was seeking a judicial review of the government’s plan to ban cigarette vending machines, reports The Times.
Chris Ogden, chief executive of TMA, the trade association for tobacco companies in the UK, said in a statement that the “government’s dictatorial approach...
BAT said that the UK government will face a “huge fight” from the tobacco industry if it moves ahead with plans that would only allow cigarettes to be sold...
Tobacco companies may be forced to sell cigarettes in plain packaging as part of a raft of measures designed to halve the number of smokers in England by 2020...
The Bavarian government announced that it will hold a referendum on smoking in cafés and beer halls on 4 July 2010.
Hauni Maschinenbau of Hamburg, Germany, acquires Sodim in France from Imperial Tobacco Group to extend its product portfolio to include Metrology and...
Vancouver's mayor, Gregor Robertson, wants to welcome the world and show that Vancouver is indeed a cosmopolitan city without being too prescriptive with...
US cigarette maker Lorillard has announced it will soon enter the market for moist smokeless tobacco products, but without giving details of the new...
Simon Chapman of the School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Australia, evaluated 511 studies with NRTs and concluded that 51 per cent of...
The Scottish Parliament yesterday approved a law banning the display of cigarettes in shops and cigarette vending machines, reports the BBC.