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...
Archive - March 2012
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...