A campaign to stop the flow of an estimated 24 billion illicit cigarettes annually will increase controls along Iran’s borders and apply more pressure on...
Archive - October 2015
22nd Century appointed Dr Paul Rushton vice president of plant biotechnology, where he will help develop modified risk tobacco products and cannabis...
Processing green leaf tobaccos by the Polish subsidiary of Philip Morris International has been turned over to the local unit of Universal, the leaf merchant...
Bok-in Baek, approved as president of KT&G at an extraordinary shareholders meeting, promised greater transparency for the cigarette maker facing corruption...
Vector Group will cut 95 positions from its tobacco-sector workforce, a 17 per cent reduction, as it restructures Liggett Group and Liggett Vector Brands, the...
Trade ministers from a dozen countries signed the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) said includes a block on tobacco...
Prosecutors investigating alleged corruption at KT&G searched offices at the Seoul headquarters of the cigarette maker, the Korea Herald said.
Santa Fe Natural Tobacco, maker of Natural American Spirit cigarettes, may face a class-action suit for product descriptions including natural, organic...
CVS Health released a study showing fewer cigarettes sold and more purchases of smoking patches in the months after the pharmacy chain removed tobacco products...
Units of Imperial Tobacco, Reynolds American and Altria filed suit against the Food and Drug Administration, saying reworked guidelines on changes to existing...
An administrative court in Munich overturned a decision by county officials to block the “Don’t be a maybe,” advertising campaign for Marlboro cigarettes...
The US proposed a compromise to block tobacco companies from suing under provisions of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade package being negotiated by 12...
Production of Vuse e-cigarettes has been consolidated following installation of new equipment at the main manufacturing facility in Tobaccoville, North...