Black market cigarette consumption in the 28 European Union countries fell by roughly 7 billion sticks in 2013 on lower volumes in the United Kingdom and...
Archive - June 2014
Philip Morris International (PMI) filed for judicial review of the revised European Union Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), saying the ban on menthol...
Philip Morris International bought Nicocigs, an acquisition that brings the tobacco company its first e-cigarette product and about one quarter of the UK...
The draft covers cigarette and roll-your-own packaging, and requirements for the appearance of individual cigarettes. Products such as cigars would not be...
Philip Morris International (PMI) said it will earn substantially less this year due to a pre-tax charge of USD 495 million (EUR 363.5 million) for closing a...
The daughter of a Florida woman who died of lung cancer in 1993 was awarded USD 20 million (EUR 14.7 million) in an Engle progeny case, the Winston-Salem...
The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) said the Welsh government's proposed ban on use of e-cigarettes in public places would restrict an effective and...
“We continue to grow our footprint into the region, and we have been exporting a lot of finished cigarettes into Mozambique”, said Adam Molai, Savanna...
Sheba Investments, based in Yemen, will become majority owner in the state monopoly National Tobacco Enterprise by purchasing an additional 38 per cent from...
Nicotine will be the focus of a two-day conference in Warsaw that organisers say will examine the science and politics behind use of nicotine in e-cigarettes...
A federal court upheld New York City’s ban on use of discount coupons to lower the price of the country’s highest priced cigarettes, the Associated Press...
The Food and Drug Administration extended by 30 days the public comment period on its so called deeming rule to expand regulatory authority over tobacco...
A search of English-language websites in January revealed 466 brands of e-cigarettes and 7,764 flavoured liquids, a University of California study shows.
Sales of Vuse, the e-cigarette product owned by Reynolds American, will be expanded from two to the rest of the United States beginning 23 June, RJ Reynolds...
World Tobacco (WT) Asia 2014, scheduled for November in Singapore, has been cancelled due a negative government response, organisers said.
Kentucky became the 23rd jurisdiction settle a dispute with tobacco companies over Non-Participating Manufacture (NPM) adjustments under the Master Settlement...
Recent kretek factory closings prompted the Industry Ministry to ask for a reduction in excise taxes imposed on the hand-rolled clove cigarettes, the Jakarta...
Swedish Match applied to the Food and Drug Administration for permission to market its General brand snus in the US as a modified risk tobacco product (MRTP)...
“Our investment in Zandera provides the JT Group with an excellent entry point into the fast-growing e-cigarette category”, said Masamichi Terabatake...
Essentra launched what it terms a full-service e-cigarette offering including plastics, components and science-backed designs for increased reliability, the...