The legal age to purchase tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, will be raised from 18 to 21 in New York City, the strictest limit in any major US city...
Archive - October 2013
Japan Tobacco International (JTI) increased share in key markets but shipped 5.1 per cent less product in the three months to 30 Sept as the global cigarette...
NDC Infrared Engineering, a maker of gauges for measuring moisture, nicotine and sugars in tobacco, announced the appointment of Terry Patterson as vice...
Japan Tobacco (JT) will shutter factories and cut 1,600 jobs to remain competitive in a domestic market expected to shrink in coming years, the company said.
Swedish Match reaffirmed its forecast for higher snus and moist-snuff volumes in 2013 despite a third-quarter dip in Scandinavian and US markets.
A tobacconist in Toulouse is suing a nearby e-cigarette shop over advertisements the smokeshop owner says impinge on the monopoly to market tobacco products in...
A hotly contested ban on retail displays of cigarettes has been dropped from anti-tobacco legislation proposed for New York City, according to a report in the...
Philip Morris USA’s key Marlboro brand maintained market share at 43.7 per cent in the third quarter as a combination of special factors raised overall...
KT&G will pull advertising depicting monkeys to promote its new This Africa cigarette brand in Korea following charges of racism, BBC reported.
Vector Group and its Ligget tobacco unit will pay USD 110 million (EUR 80 million) to free themselves from more than 4,900 Engle progeny cases, the company...
Lorillard’s electronic-cigarette acquisition blu eCigs continues to grow and now accounts for almost half the US retail market, the company said.
British American Tobacco said higher volumes for its key global cigarette brands boosted nine-month sales, which increased 0.7 per cent despite an overall drop...
RJ Reynolds Tobacco shipment volume fell 4.3 per cent in the third quarter, however the pace of decline slowed, Reynolds American said.
Banning menthol cigarettes would cost jobs and drive the product onto an illicit market open to young smokers, the American Wholesale Marketing Association...
Cigarette shipment volume at Philip Morris International (PMI) fell 5.7 per cent to 223.1 billion sticks in the third quarter due to the continuing...
Philip Morris International (PMI) will release a statement on its third quarter performance to investors later today, the first in a series of reports by major...
Socialist Party legislators proposed amending the Health Act to ease the total ban on lighting up in public places by introducing designated smoking areas...
The Council for Tobacco Control asked for a new Tobacco Control Act to limit advertising and sale of smuggled cigarettes by legal vendors, Bernama news agency...
Finance Minister Michael Noonan will announce a tenfold increase in the retailer tobacco licence annual fee to EUR 500 (USD 678) when he presents the 2014...
British American Tobacco (BAT) has entered into a research license agreement with 22nd Century for access to the US biotechnology company’s technology to...