Philip Morris USA retained its hold on half the market, but cigarette shipments fell 5.8 per cent in the fourth quarter due to slumping consumption and changes...
Archive - January 2014
Japan Tobacco International (JTI) shipping volume fell by 20 billion, a 4.6 per cent decline, to 416.4 billion sticks in 2013, a year in which the cigarette...
Philip Morris International (PMI) has redone its production pact with Eastern Company and struck a new distribution deal in Egypt to boost growth and profit in...
Organisers of Inter-tabac Asia scheduled for Bali in late February rebutted a statement 27 Jan by the Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA) that the...
Fox Broadcasting and Viacom have asked the federal court that ordered tobacco companies to buy advertising about the dangers of smoking to add them to the list...
A letter to US Trade Representative Michael Froman signed by chief law enforcement officials of 45 states and territories asks tobacco products be removed from...
Gilla, a US-based designer, marketer and distributor of e-cigarettes, acquired an Irish distributor as a platform for further European expansion, the company...
The National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) is preparing to sue tobacco companies to reclaim money the state insurer spends on treatment for illness related...
Advertising tobacco products is an offense subject to a fine of as much as AED 1 million (EUR 201,000) from today as a package of stiff new controls took...
The state controlled tobacco industry generated nearly CNY 956 billion (EUR 116 billion) in profit and tax last year, most of which went to the government...
More than 1,000 farmers blocked a road and set bales of tobacco on fire as protests that began early this year continued over alleged low prices offered...
An agreement between tobacco companies, the government and anti-smoking agencies on corrective statements that admit companies deceived the public about health...
The European Parliament (EP) public health committee approved the agreement on revising the Tobacco Products Directive reached in December, setting up a vote...
Chicago aldermen voted 45-4 to ban the use of e-cigarettes in most public places and require they be sold from behind the counter, according to the Chicago...
Plain packaging for cigarettes has been proposed for the United Arab Emirates and other Gulf region countries by 2016, according to regional news accounts that...
Calls to the national Quitline service have increased by 78 per cent since the introduction of plain packaging for tobacco products in 2012, according to a...
Tobacco Solutions Asia Limited (TSAL) named Frederick Maan manager for sales and marketing of equipment and tobacco consultancy services, the company said.
Tobacco farmers have planted more than 97,000 hectares tobacco this year and may surpass the government production target for this year of 170 million...
Lawyers for major US tobacco companies and the Department of Justice have agreed on details of court-ordered advertisements admitting the companies deceived...
Philip Morris International (PMI) announced it will invest as much as EUR 500 million (USD 680 million) to build a manufacturing facility and pilot plant for...