Medical associations and anti-smoking groups called for “bold action” by government to cut the smoking rate from 18 to below 10 per cent in the next decade...
Archive - January 2014
Although smokers as a percentage of the global population dropped by one quarter since 1980, a study in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)...
Health officials hope to implement a nationwide ban on smoking in public places by the end of this year, said the South China Morning Post.
Tobacco growers protesting against a low prices and a slow start to the buying season gained the backing of one of the country’s ruling political parties...
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has dropped plans to reduce the final tobacco buyout payment by 7.2 per cent and will pay the full amount...
Savio Kwan, a China expert, has been named a non-executive director on the Board of British American Tobacco (BAT), the cigarette maker said.
The Ministry of Health and Population urged tobacco companies to begin placing pictorial warnings on 75 per cent of product packaging after the high court...
Parliament is expected to take up plain packaging for tobacco products early in 2014 after the government sent its proposal to legislators in mid December.
Increases in special consumption taxes on selected consumer goods including tobacco products will boost the minimum duty on a pack of cigarettes 16 per cent to...