Lorillard hired Neil L. Wilcox, a former policy analyst at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), to fill a newly created position to manage regulatory...
Archive - June 2011
Philip Morris' parent company Altria, Reynolds American and Lorillard notified U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler that they will appeal her decision last...
Leading business organizations in the U.S. yesterday issued a joint statement opposing the Australian government´s proposed legislation on plain packaging.
Economy Minister Gyorgy Matolcsy on Friday submitted draft legislation to parliament which will raise the excise tax on tobacco and cigarettes in several...
Nicoventures, the start-up created by British American Tobacco to develop smoke-free products, said it won rights to globally market a nicotine inhalation...
A judge on Wednesday ruled that the state of New York will not be able to collect taxes on cigarettes sold by Indian retailers to non-Indians for another week.
Judge Gladys Kessler, who had ruled in 2006 that major US tobacco companies were guilty of racketeering because of years of deception about tobacco's...
Comprehensive anti-smoking legislation setting public areas off limits, mandating packaging warnings and a ban on advertising was approved by the...
Legislation before the Icelandic parliament calls for the sale of tobacco products to be restricted to registered pharmacies, reports Icenews.
The state of Vermont is joining 41 other states in an agreement that calls on a convenience store chain to take steps to reduce the sale of tobacco products to...