Filtrona Scientific Services added two testing machines at the Jarrow, UK, laboratory to develop new methods for testing Tobacco Specific Nitrosamines (TSNAs)...
Archive - August 2011
Women smokers are 25 per cent more likely to contract heart disease than their male counterparts, the Irish Times said in a story citing a new US study.
Sales of tobacco products to minors are at the lowest level in years, reported USA Today in a story citing a government study.
Tobacco grower unions are petitioning Peshawar High Court to redress “flagrant violations” by the Tobacco Board when it set tobacco prices for this year...
A nationwide ban on smoking in public places and sale of tobacco products near schools and health institutions that began 7 Aug is taking hold, according to...
Alliance One tobacco revenue in South America fell USD 121.1 million (EUR 84.6 million) in the business quarter ending 30 June, driven by declines both in...
Universal Corporation sales of flue-cured and burley leaf declined 10 per cent in the three months ending 30 June, influenced by what the company said was a...
Sweden remains adamant that the use of snus should be allowed throughout the European Union, according to reported remarks by Trade Minister Ewa Björling.
British American Tobacco has withdrawn from the privatisation bidding for the former Bulgarian tobacco monopoly Bulgartabac for what it said were commercial...
Lorillard announced a USD 750 million (EUR 527 million), two-tiered debt issue to raise capital for possible stock repurchase, acquisitions or capital...
Last week’s Supreme Court affirmation that the federal government has no third-party liability in tobacco suits by Canadian provinces may cost the industry...
Japan Tobacco International (JTI) shipment volume was almost unchanged in the six months through June though key-brand shipments rose 3.2 per cent helped by...