The Tobacco Research Board intends to plant six million seedlings next year to counteract deforestation caused when trees are felled for fuel to cure tobacco...
Archive - November 2014
Philip Morris International (PMI) subsidiary Papastratos Cigarette Manufacturing will invest EUR 25 million into new production lines to turn its factory into...
US-based PerkinElmer agreed to acquire Perten Instruments of Sweden, a leader in analytical instruments, to improve its food testing portfolio, Perten said.
The government proposed banning all forms of advertising for tobacco products and codifying a ban on indoor smoking to strengthen its anti-smoking programme...
The E-cigarette Trade Association (VdeH) is readying a suit against the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for stunting business via a claim later rejected by a...
Ricardo Oberlander, the British American Tobacco management board member responsible for the Americas, will join the board of directors at Reynolds American as...
The Federal Administrative Court ruled electronic cigarettes and liquids are not pharmaceuticals, striking down claims to the contrary by municipal, state and...
British American Tobacco (BAT) announced a series of management changes, including the departure of Nicoventures Managing Director Des Naughton and Neil...
Westminster rejected a ban on tobacco sales that would have it the first in the nation to legislate the products off store shelves in the town near Boston...
A union representing workers at Japan Tobacco International’s (JTI) cigarette factory in Northern Ireland proposed turning the site into a centre for...
Vape continues to gain steam with its selection as Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year just months after the verb was added to the online lexicon in August...
Reynolds American plans to launch a heat-not-burn product early in 2015, which would provide a domestic challenger to Philip Morris International’s iQOS heat...
Tax officials levied a GBP 650,000 (EUR 813,000) fine against British American Tobacco (BAT) for oversupplying a low-priced market outside the UK, a practise...
Cigars rival cigarettes in popularity at high schools and one in five students use a tobacco product, according to the 2013 National Youth Tobacco Survey.
Tobacco companies would pay a one-time levy in 2015 to fund health care costs under a bill before Parliament filed by a member of the ruling Fidesz party...
A Florida jury ruled against Philip Morris USA and Liggett Group in awarding USD 35 million (EUR 28 million) to a former smoker who underwent two lung...
“Game changing” Vuse e-cigarette technology owned by Reynolds American (RAI) is a central issue in the class-action suit seeking to block the cigarette...
Dirk Corsten replaced Dick van Bruggen as managing director of the Bobst facility in Meerbusch, Germany, a responsibility he will exercise in addition to his...
E-cigarette makers will be allowed to depict use of their vaping products in television advertisements under new rules that create an exception to the...
Persons younger than 21 years of age would be barred from purchasing tobacco products under a bill planned by Duma lawmaker Sergei Poddubny, the news agency...