The lower house of parliament on Tuesday approved a government proposal to raise taxes on cigarettes and tobacco products as of January 2012 and again in 2014...
Archive - February 2011
Prime Minister Hun Sen and the Council of Ministers on Friday approved a draft sub-decree prohibiting the advertisement of tobacco products, reports the Phnom...
The Polish Ministry of Treasury has sold its 70-per-cent share in Zakłady Tytoniowe w Lublinie (ZTL), the last state-owned cigarette manufacturer in...
Seoul High Court on Tuesday rejected South Korea's first lawsuit against a tobacco company.
Movies and TV shows are no longer allowed to feature long scenes with smokers and shots that show cigarette brands, reports the Wall Street Journal.
US hospitals and medical businesses are increasingly turning away job applicants based on whether or not they smoke, according to a cover story by the...
The US Department of Transportation plans to issue an official ban this spring on the use of smokeless electronic cigarettes on airplanes, reports the...
The Supreme Court of India has asked the central government to issue a notification against the use of plastic pouches and wrappers for gutka, a chewing...
Greek company Leaf Tobacco A. Michailidis opened a new tobacco processing plant at Sandanski, Bulgaria.
India's federal government is looking into a proposal to ban foreign direct investment (FDI) in the wholesale marketing arms of foreign cigarette...
U.S. District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia rejected the FDA’s bid to have the full court review a three-judge panel’s earlier decision...
Costing AD 61 million (EUR 44.4 million) the federal government today launched Australia's most expensive advertising campaign against the use of tobacco.