Victory Electronic Cigarettes launched what it calls a first-of-its kind vaping system employing pre-filled clearomizers for a unit that can also fit popular...
Archive - May 2014
The World Health Organisation issued a call for higher taxes on tobacco products, saying a 50 per cent global increase could prompt nearly 50 million smokers...
Inter-tabac 2014 is fully booked more than three months before the trade show is scheduled to open, despite adding an extra exhibition hall, organisers said.
Food and confectionary companies are taking action to keep their brand names off imitation e-liquid flavours, the Associated Press reported.
RJ Reynolds Tobacco (RJRT) will begin manufacturing Vuse e-cigarettes, adding 200 jobs and a “multi-million dollar” equipment investment to back the...
Reynolds American Inc (RAI) is in "late stage talks" to acquire Lorillard in what would be a merger between the second and third largest US tobacco...
Massoud Mobrem has been named an associate at US-based scientific and regulatory affairs service provider Lauterbach & Associates, the company said.
The maker of the Zippo lighter filed suit against a unit of Lorillard over the use of the 'blu' moniker in the tobacco company's blu eCig brand...
PT HM Sampoerna Tbk will close two kretek plants at the end of May and make about 4,900 employees redundant as popularity of the clove-flavoured smoke...
NJoy reached an out-of-court settlement with Victory Electronic Cigarettes for patent infringement under which Victory will pull the disputed products from the...
Authorities acting on information from Imperial Tobacco raided four sites allegedly engaged in counterfeit packaging, confiscating more than 1.2 million Rizla...
Tobacco exports fell to 37,000 tons last year from 110,000 tons in 2008, a decline of 66 per cent that a farm ministry official blamed on lower quality and...
Organisers have collected 100,000 signatures on a petition asking lawmakers to rescind the ban on smoking in public places, including the extension to...
Tobacco sold at auction through 52 days of the marketing season averaged about one dollar (US) less than leaf sold via contract, according to The Chronicle.
A Human Rights Watch report, citing interviews with 141 children aged seven to 17, said three-quarters of those interviewed reported symptoms typical of...
Imperial Tobacco said Paul Matthews is the new general manager of its Australasia region, filling the position left by Melvin Ruigrok, who took over this year...
Tobacco services company NewCo is boosting staff at its Dry Ice Expanded Tobacco (DIET) operation in Hungary to include a blending manager, the company said.
The e-liquid joint venture announced by Alliance One International and Ioto International in April will be renamed Purilum, the company said in a statement.
Swedish Match snus volume in the Scandinavian region rose 1 per cent in the first quarter and the company said it gained market share in the troublesome value...
The House Armed Services Committee has blocked plans by the Navy to prohibit tobacco sales on military bases, the Navy Times said.