The smokers’ lobby group Forest has launched a website that gives opponents of plain packaging of tobacco the opportunity to petition the government when it...
Archive - January 2012
German company Borgwaldt KC announced that they supply products and services to Microbac Laboratories' newly established Center of Excellence for Tobacco...
A research paper by the Democracy Institute finds that graphic health warnings on tobacco products are ineffective, can be counterproductive and undermine core...
The US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) will make its final report on the impact of menthol cigarettes on public health available for public comments...
Altria on Friday announced the retirement of CEO Michael Szymanczyk in May and an agreement with Danish maker of nicotine chewing gum Okono to develop...
U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler on Thursday said she will not delay an order in a 12-year-old lawsuit that would make the tobacco industry pay for...
Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans, heiress to a fortune built on tobacco and member of the family that founded Duke University, died Wednesday at age 91, the...
German manufacturer of cellulose acetate fibre, Rhodia Acetow, today announced an increase of its tow production capacity by 4,000 tonnes a year.
Indonesia called on the World Trade Organisation to stick by its ruling critical of the United States ban on clove-flavoured (kretek) cigarettes in the face of...
Eleven senior counsel representing four tobacco companies and the federal government today appeared before High Court Justice William Gummow, reports the...
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) began a three day advisory committee meeting on Wednesday, discussing the safety and risks of dissolvable tobacco...
Japan Tobacco announced domestic cigarette sales volume rose 10.4 per cent in December to 10.7 billion sticks. Nine-month volume at 80.8 billion cigarettes was...
A bill that would ban smoking indoors in all public places in tobacco-producing Kentucky will go before the state legislature, the Associated Press reported.
Imperial Tobacco investigator working with Chinese authorities uncovered a counterfeiting operation making packaging for the Golden Virginia brand to be sold...
Hoffmann Neopac will take over the cigarillo and cigarette-tin business from Netherlands-based CM Packaging (CMP) to increase its tobacco business, the Swiss...
Two major German employers' lobby groups called for workers to be banned from smoking cigarettes during work hours, saying it harmed productivity and cost...
Thailand Tobacco Monopoly (TTM) will reduce its investment in a planned factory near Bangkok and seek another estate in which to build a second plant, as it...
Employers in Norway are likely to ban smoking for employees during work hours, says Minister of Health Anne-Grethe Strom-Erichsen.
Scotland will delay implementation of a display ban for tobacco products in supermarkets due to a legal challenge by Imperial Tobacco and forthcoming changes...
Nine people, led by the former director of the National Medical Center Park Jae-Gahb, have asked the constitutional court to review the tobacco law which they...