President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has approved regulations requiring health warnings with pictures on cigarette packs and outlawing the use of tobacco product...
Archive - January 2013
A proposal for tobacco products not already regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to be released for public comment by April, the...
Andhra Pradesh, one of India’s largest states and home to 12 gutka manufacturing units, is the 14th state to ban gutka, reports the Deccan Chronicle.
A lawsuit seeking to shutter the monopoly Eastern Tobacco and ban manufacture of cigarettes will go before a judicial advisory body on 3 Feb, according to a...
A poll released by the tobacco education foundation Legacy shows 34 per cent of surveyed adult smokers resolved to quit smoking in 2013.
Hauni Maschinenbau, a leading provider of technology for cigarette production and tobacco processing, opened a sales and service branch in Izmir to provide...
The Health Ministry will propose raising the portion of tax in retail prices for tobacco products to 70 per cent, the Indian Express reported.
Federal and state governments are investigating a tobacco-and-gift franchiser for offering give-away covers that allow customers to hide gruesome graphics...
Larger warnings without pictorials are planned for cigarette packs by 2015 in an effort to cut the smoking rate three percentage points to 25 per cent of the...
The price of a standard pack of 20 cigarettes rose to NZD 16 (EUR 10) on 1 Jan as the first of four annual tax increases took effect that will raise duty by at...
Excise taxes on tobacco and alcohol products increased 1 Jan in the first of a series of hikes to raise additional revenue for health care, the Philippines...
Tobacco exports, nearly all of them cigarettes, increased 370 per cent in the past decade while imports remained stable, according to Customs Service data...