The Quebec Court of Appeal ruled the provincial government has the constitutional right to sue tobacco companies for health care costs associated with...
Archive - September 2015
Attorneys general from 33 states and territories called for immediate steps by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to require warning labels and child-proof...
The Health Ministry pushed back the date for introducing graphic warnings covering 85 per cent of the surface on cigarette packaging to April, 2016, Reuters...
Japan Tobacco (JT) acquired the international business of Santa Fe Natural Tobacco, the Reynolds American subsidiary that makes Natural American Spirit...
Tobacco farmers in Jember, East Java, say buyers are scarce for a crop coated by volcanic ash by the eruption of Mt Raung, the Jakarta Post said.
Japan Tobacco (JT) is in advanced talks with Reynolds American (RAI) to acquire cigarette assets worth USD 5 billion (EUR 4.5 billion), the news agency...
British American Tobacco (BAT) and RJ Reynolds Tobacco will work together to develop and cross-license vaping technologies through 2022 while cooperating on...
Luxembourg-based Heintz van Landewyck will manufacture a new cigarette brand and an RYO product for Bentley Tobacco, according to travel retailing publication...
Bernd Münstermann merged operations of its dedusting subsidiary Neotechnik into the parent company as of 1 Sept, the company announced.
World Tobacco (WT) Process and Machinery Asia will be held in Jakarta on 27-28 April, 2016, the trade show organizer announced.
KT&G called an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders on 7 Oct to vote on the nomination of Bok-in Baek, vice president, chief production and R&D...
Japan Tobacco said Koji Shimayoshi will become senior vice president and chief of Human Resources and Chito Sasaki will assume new responsibilities as senior...
Manoj Kumar Dwivedi took over as chairman of the Tobacco Board following dismissal last week of Koothati Gopal, The Hindu reported.
Hong Kong-based TSAL named Arif Purwanto technical sales manager to oversee the entry of the tobacco processing equipment maker into the Indonesian market, the...
Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman dismissed Tobacco Board Chairman Koothati Gopal, angered by the chairman’s absence at key meetings on a domestic tobacco...
Roughly one in five high school seniors said they used shisha tobacco at least once in the previous year, according to a multi-year study of more than 8,700...
RJ Reynolds Tobacco (RJRT) “strongly disagrees” with the decision by federal tobacco regulators to order removal of four of its cigarette products from the...
Tobacco industry regulators ordered RJ Reynolds Tobacco (RJRT) to stop distribution and sales of four variants of the Camel, Pall Mall and Vantage cigarette...
California state lawmakers failed to act on a package of tobacco control bills before the end of the regular session, making it unlikely they will be heard...
RJ Reynolds Tobacco (RJRT) President and Chief Commercial Officer Debra Crew will become chief operating officer of the cigarette maker under a management...