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...