The Quebec provincial legislature unanimously approved tougher tobacco restrictions that extend restrictions on public use of tobacco products to e-cigarettes...
Archive - November 2015
Japan Tobacco announced plans to shuffle top management next year to improve company performance that include nominating Mutsuo Iwai as a representative...
Parliament narrowly voted approval of a law to strip branding from cigarette packaging and require manufacturers to adopt a unitary pack design from May 2016...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will reopen public comment on a proposed rule clarifying when products made or derived from tobacco should be regulated...
Storing tobacco products out of sight in convenience outlets “significantly” lowers susceptibility to cigarette use among teenagers, according to a Rand...
The percentage of secondary school students using cigarettes fell to 5 per cent from 7 per cent in the two previous surveys, according to a national survey...
Philip Morris Pakistan made 141 employees redundant in tobacco purchasing and processing units as the cigarette maker continues to roll back operations in...
The Center for Environmental Health (CEH) said more than 60 companies including major cigarette manufacturers now face lawsuits alleging breach of California...
Biomarker measurements in smokeless tobacco users indicate higher levels of nicotine exposure and cancer-causing tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNAs) than...
British American Tobacco will test a hybrid cigarette product employing e-cigarette technology and tobacco next week in a European market, according to Reuters.
Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) named the managing director of its German operations, Regis Broersma, to replace Dan Carr as president of General Cigar...
Javier Estades, head of Imperial Tobacco’s premium cigar unit Tabacalera USA, has been elected chairman of the Cigar Association of America (CAA), the...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), just days after announcing cigarette smoking prevalence among adults fell to a record low 16.8 per cent...
The Food and Drug Administration is taking nominations to serve on the Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee (TPSAC), the 12-member expert panel that...
Smoking prevalence among US adults fell one percentage point between 2013 and 2014 to a record low 16.8 per cent, the Centers for Disease Control and...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau plans to make good on his election promise to introduce plain packaging for tobacco products, stating in a letter to Health...
Leaked guidance on forthcoming e-cigarette regulation show the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) proposed final rule would decimate the US vaping...
Pictorial health warnings on tobacco products will be expanded next April to 85 per cent of package surface area from the current 40 per cent, The New Indian...
A draft law seeks to stop tobacco companies from promoting their products via charitable donations, Xinhua news agency reported.
Alliance One International said discrepancies amounting to possibly USD 40 million (EUR 37.3 million) have been discovered in accounts receivable and inventory...