The California Senate passed a package of measures including raising the minimum age to buy tobacco products to 21 and extending to electronic cigarettes the...
Archive - August 2015
The Food and Drug Administration sent letters to three US cigarette makers warning against use of “natural” or “additive-free” descriptions on products...
Cigarette health warnings with pictures covering 75 per cent of the front and back of packs will be implemented “soon”, the Myanmar Times said in a report...
Imperial Tobacco agreed to help the State Revenue Service combat illicit trade in tobacco products, which at nearly 30 per cent of the market is the highest in...
A proposal to increase the state tobacco tax by USD 2 (EUR 1.75) per package is back before the California legislature, this time to include e-cigarettes, the...
Fontem Ventures, the vapour-product unit of Imperial Tobacco, plans to close a warehouse and office in Scotland due to strategic restructuring, said...
The California Senate Appropriations Committee reported out a package of anti-tobacco bills that include raising the smoking age and empowering local...
British American Tobacco (BAT) is on track to become the first cigarette company to manufacture and market a medically approved device to help smokers quit the...
The Health Ministry plans to raise the minimum age for purchasing tobacco from 18 to 21 and ban displays of the products in shops, the New Straits Times said.
A report by Public Health England (PHE) that concludes e-cigarettes are much less harmful than cigarettes and do not appear to represent a gateway for young...
Teenagers who have used e-cigarettes by the time they start ninth grade are much more likely to take up combustible tobacco products like cigarettes, according...
Imperial Tobacco growth brand shipments rose by nearly 14 billion sticks in the nine months to 30 June as the product group including Davidoff and JPS...
British American Tobacco (BAT) will close the Guildford Depository, an archive located near London created as part of a US legal settlement, and move the...
Japan Tobacco International (JTI) adjusted operating profit plummeted nearly 21 per cent to USD 889 million (EUR 809 million) in the second quarter due to...
Japan Tobacco (JT) will boost investment in the brands, markets and products of its international subsidiary in the second half of 2015, the company said.
Japan Tobacco (JT) will close its Moscow cigarette factory and make 573 workers redundant in response to falling sales in Russia, the company said.
A change in tobacco laws to restrict sales of most e-cigarette products to licensed tobacconists was blocked by a constitutional court that said vaping...
A Business Court judge rejected the suit brought on behalf of the Beatrice Corwin Living Irrevocable Trust that claimed some shareholders would be adversely...
Nicopure Labs, a Florida based maker of e-liquids and vaping devices, named Patricia Kovacevic general counsel and chief compliance officer, the company said.
Philip Morris Fortune Tobacco (PMFTC) President Paul Riley will be replaced from 16 Aug by Roman Militsyn, managing director at a PM affiliate in Argentina...