A South Carolina researcher plans a study of snus use to determine whether it encourages smokers to quit cigarettes, the Winston-Salem Journal reports.
Archive - May 2011
Tobacco production this year may exceed the official target by 10 per cent, or about 28 million kilograms, because of illegal cultivation in Karnataka, reports...
Japan Tobacco (JT) said domestic volume will fall by about one quarter this fiscal year after higher cigarette prices cut demand and the March earthquake...
Stora Enso Group’s fine-paper unit plans to cut as many as 285 European jobs under a restructuring plan to begin this year.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it will abandon efforts to classify electronic cigarettes as a drug and instead will treat them as a tobacco...
Altadis, a unit of British group Imperial Tobacco, said on Tuesday it has raised the prices of its leading brands in Spain by EUR 0.10, reports Reuters.
M-real is raising the prices of folding boxboard by 7 to 9 per cent in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Philip Morris International raised its profit target for 2011, saying cigarette shipments are running above expectations despite sizeable declines in the...
Lorillard Tobacco first-quarter domestic shipments rose 9.4 per cent in contrast to a 3.4 per cent decline for the US industry as a whole.
A new law went into effect Monday banning smoking in New York's 1,700 parks, pedestrian plazas, 14 miles of beaches and public golf courses.
European retailers today signed a declaration opposing proposals for plain cigarette packaging, a ban on the display of any tobacco products in shops and...
Reynolds American is seizing on new anti-smoking laws in New York City this week to launch an advertising campaign for Camel Snus, reports the Wall Street...
British American Tobacco (BAT) will buy Colombia’s second largest cigarette company, Productora Tabacalera de Colombia (Protabaco), for USD 452 million (EUR...
The Armenian government last week approved a bill that gives equal rights to cigarette importers and local manufacturers, reports the Armenian news agency Arka.
Zimbabwean farmers sold 61,6 million kg of tobacco at an average price of USD 2,81 a kg for the first 50 days of the selling season, reports Newsday quoting...
An international Deloitte report, commissioned by BAT, reveals that increasing the size of health warnings on packs and introducing graphic warnings has not...
The Ministry of Health stated that electronic cigarettes are "far safer" than smoking tobacco amidst controversy over their legal status.
Argentina on Monday banned the import, sale and promotion of electronic cigarettes, reports AFP.
The California Supreme Court has lifted legal deadlines for smokers who later develop diseases like lung cancer.
Japan Tobacco forecasts the impact of higher excise taxes and price hikes will reduce domestic sales volume by 18.5 per cent in the 12 months through...