Health Minister Nicola Roxon is under fire for soliciting Philip Morris to attend a campaign fundraiser six years ago, contrary to a ban on tobacco industry...
Archive - June 2011
The government is to stop subsidising the anti-smoking lobby group Stivoro from 2013, reports Dutch News.
Imperial and other tobacco companies doing business in Spain have cut cigarette prices in response to a weak market. Spain is suffering from high unemployment...
This week, the Ministry of Finance proposed a law that would raise the price of cigarettes, while the Ministry of Health proposed graphic health warnings on...
British American Tobacco Australia today launched a national media campaign which questions the Federal Government’s proposed plain packaging legislation and...
Zimbabwean flue-cured tobacco volume sales rose nearly 37 per cent to 99.5 million kg in the 12-month period ending 31 May, The Zimbabwean said in a story...
Philip Morris International has purchased the rights to a technology that lets users inhale nicotine without smoking, reports The Associated Press.
A Sao Paulo court denied claims for indemnification brought by a smokers association in a class action suit filed against cigarette manufacturers...
The International Tax and Investment Center (ITIC) on Friday warned policy makers of the European Union about the growing prevalence and the dangers of illicit...
China National Tobacco Corporation (CNTC) is in talks with the Greek Cooperative Cigarette Manufacturing Company, known as Sekap, about a cooperation...
The Israeli government has proposed a set of legislative amendments aimed at curbing tobacco use and approved the establishment of a new anti-smoking unit at...
The Israeli parliament passed a law under which cigarette vending machines will be banned as of 1 January 2014.
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has bowed to political pressure saying he will support plain packaging legislation for cigarettes, reports The Sydney Morning...
Sweden's minister for trade, Ewa Bjorling, yesterday raised the question of snus as EU competition authorities met in Brussels to review regulations for...
In a letter to the Australian Trade Minister Craig Emerson, the Secretary-General of the ICC, Jean-Guy, wrote that the scheme will establish a risky example...
British American Tobacco Australia won an appeals court hearing in a bid to force the government to turn over documents relating to a plan to restrict...
Bulgaria's Health Minister Stefan Konstantinov announced Tuesday plans to introduce a full smoking ban on 1 June 2012, reports news agency Novinite.
Bulgaria's opposition Socialist party earlier this week said that the requirements for privatizing Bulgartabac practically bans big foreign players from...
On the occasion of "World No Tobacco Day" on 31 May Imperial Tobacco (IT) Canada asked policy makers to review their tobacco control strategy and...
Supreme Court Justice Donna Siwek rejected the Seneca Indian Nation's claims that state taxing officials had improperly adopted regulations that will...