Health Minister Marisol Touraine announced a series of new measures to combat tobacco consumption in France, including the introduction of plain packaging for...
Archive - September 2014
Aimed at the "little cigar" market in the country, to which the government already introduced regulations on flavour additives in 2010, proposed new...
Representative David Cicilline and 34 other House Democrats sent a letter to Labor Secretary Thomas Perez seeking a ban on children working on tobacco farms...
Auger, currently vice president of trade marketing development at the cigarette maker, will assume his new duties from 1 Jan, 2015. Colin Uffindell, currently...
Imperial Tobacco selected Aras software to build a unitary global product lifecycle management system to replace multiple outdated systems, Aras announced.
Closing arguments have begun in a CAD 17.8 billion (EUR 12.6 billion) class-action suit on behalf of smokers who accuse tobacco companies of marketing a...
Debra Crew, president and general manager of PepsiCo North America Nutrition, will head RJ Reynolds Tobacco (RJRT) from 1 Oct, said Reynolds American.
Eight European Union countries filed objections to plans by Ireland to introduce plain packaging for tobacco products, the Irish Times reported.
Japan Tobacco International (JTI) stopped a suit claiming intellectual property rights infringement against an insolvent e-liquid company after the liquidator...
Final payments under the buyout program begun to wean tobacco growers off a system of government price supports and quotas will be mailed in October, the...
The most recent survey shows Logic disposable and rechargeable e-cigs increased market share to account for 24.3 per cent of convenience store e-cigarette...
The number of smokers in New York City, a leader in anti-smoking measures and home to some of the country’s highest cigarette prices, rose for the third...
Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) acquired Toraño Family Cigar Company in a bid to strengthen the position of its US subsidiary, General Cigar, the company...
Inter-tabac, which bills itself as the world’s largest trade fair for tobacco products and smoking accessories, is solidly booked this year with more than...
Cigarette prices, among the lowest in industrial countries, would rise 80 per cent next year under a plan announced by the government to cut the smoking rate...
Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) Chief Executive Officer Anders Colding Friis will leave the cigar company to head jewelry giant Pandora, the Copenhagen Post...
The number of small cigarette factories has fallen by one third to 1,970 from 3,000 in 2007 as a shrinking market and tougher regulation prompt manufacturers...
Queensland plans to treat e-cigarettes like their tobacco counterparts, banning vaping in public places and curtailing retail advertising, the Australian...
Commerce Ministry officials proposed banning imports of e-cigarettes and hookah/shisha products after the National Council for Peace and Order said their use...
22nd Century Group, a company that adjusts nicotine levels in tobacco via biotechnology, said it joined the Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) and would begin...