World Health Organisation (WHO) efforts to control tobacco will turn to the elimination of trade in illicit tobacco products from 29 March to 4 April when a...
Archive - March 2012
The U.S. Supreme Court will not review a USD 28.3 million (EUR 21.3 million) wrongful death verdict against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, declining to consider legal...
KT&G is set to enter into the pharmaceutical market with the official opening of KT&G Life Sciences on Wednesday.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has imposed a "solidarity tobacco tax” on India, for non-compliance of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control...
A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel says dissolvable tobacco products could reduce health risks compared with smoking cigarettes but also have...
Effective today, tobacco manufacturers and importers will now be restricted to distributing and selling cigarette and little cigar packages with new health...
Cigarette prices rose 37p to an average GBP 7.46 (EUR 8.94) per pack of 20 under provisions of the 2012 budget announced Wednesday by Chancellor of the...
Bloomberg Philanthropies will commit another USD 220 million (EUR 166 million) to combat tobacco use, raising the total anti-smoking allocation to nearly USD...
Imperial Tobacco filed an appeal against a proposed retail display ban for cigarettes in Scotland with the UK Supreme Court following rejection by the Court of...
A second federal Engle case on culpability in the death of a smoker has been decided in favour of two tobacco companies, Philip Morris USA said in a statement.
At the 15th World Conference on Tobacco or Health (WCTOH) in Singapore WHO Director General Margaret Chan urged China and other Asian countries to raise taxes...
A federal appeals court Monday largely upheld the U.S. government's authority to regulate tobacco products, including requirements for stronger, graphic...
Japan Tobacco (JT) on Friday announced the establishment of a standard value for radioactive materials in Japanese domestic leaf tobacco.
Anvisa, Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency, last week decided to ban additives in cigarettes, reports Global Post citing R7 Noticias.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have on Thursday unveiled a new USD 54 million (EUR 41...
Ukraine took its plain-packaging complaints against Australia to the World Trade Organisation by asking Australia for consultations, the first step in the WTO...
Anti-smoking advocates greeted Inter-tabac and ProTobEx in Manila on Thursday, saying the tobacco trade fair doesn’t belong in a location where cigarette...
Reynolds American plans to eliminate 10 per cent of its U.S. workforce, or about 540 jobs, in the next three years as demand for cigarettes slumps, the company...
Dealers in illicit drugs are expanding into cigarette smuggling, the Associated Press reported in a story citing a revenue service official. One billion...
Removing product descriptions as envisioned under cigarette plain-packaging proposals will trigger a switch to cheaper brands that could undermine the goal of...