Canadian and US law enforcement bodies arrested more than 60 people and seized enough tobacco for at least 105 million cigarettes in a joint sweep also...
Archive - March 2016
The anti-smoking advocacy group Quit has slammed supermarket chains for selling low-priced premium cigarettes, the Canberra Times reported.
Philip Morris International (PMI) moved back the iQOS national rollout date to 18 April, citing potential supply shortages due to popularity of the...
British American Tobacco (BAT) is constructing an international logistics hub in the port of Piraeus capable of handling 3.1 billion cigarettes annually...
The High Court of Kenya struck down a challenge by British American Tobacco (BAT) of tougher tobacco control measures that include annual levies on...
The Florida Supreme Court ruled against RJ Reynolds Tobacco on the issue of applying a cut-off date in Engle progeny damage suits against RJRT and other...
Imperial Tobacco Canada said it has filed a legal challenge to overturn the ban on menthol flavoured cigarettes that took effect this year in New Brunswick.
Plain packaging of tobacco products will be mandatory from 1 January 2017 and Japan Tobacco International's French subsidiary (JTI France) will challenge...
Under the ‘no-smoking zones’ draft bylaw handed to the city administration on 11 March, shops that sell cigarettes would only be permitted to display a...
The Bulgarian cigarette maker Bulgartabac will halt sales to the Mideast from 1 April, a move that will cost 400 jobs, the Hürriyet Daily News reported.
The Florida State Supreme Court rejected arguments by RJ Reynolds Tobacco that punitive damages in Engle progeny suits be confined to issues of concealment or...
The Public Health Agency has requested input on the benefits and cost impact of introducing plain packaging for tobacco products, the Canadian Broadcasting...
Parliament approved a display ban for tobacco products in most retail outlets beginning next year, The Straits Times reported.
Police seized a record high 88 tonnes of tobacco, enough to make more than eight million packs of cigarettes, in raids on warehouses in southern Andalucia, the...
Fontem granted Nicoventures Holdings a non-exclusive licence for e-vapour technology patents for an undisclosed sum. It was the latest in a series of...
The California Senate approved a package of anti-tobacco legislation that includes raising the minimum age for the purchase of tobacco products to 21 and...
The iQOS heat-not-burn product being introduced selectively around the world by Philip Morris International (PMI) has the potential to take nearly 10 per cent...
European Union finance ministers asked the EU Commission to decide by next year whether to propose levying excise tax on e-cigarettes, Reuters reported.
Arend van der Sluis Sr, who built his family’s cigar operation into the global tobacco machinery maker ITM Group before turning the business over to his son...
HM Revenue and Customs said coordinated action by authorities has halved the volume of illicit cigarettes and cut the amount of untaxed hand-rolling tobaccos...