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.