The Federation of All India Farmer Associations (FAIFA) urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to include tobacco farmers in the country’s delegation to the...
Archive - September 2016
Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) will close two machine-made cigar plants in what the company termed an acceleration of its cost reduction programme that will...
Florida-based e-liquid maker Nicopure Labs has named Charles Hamshaw-Thomas to head the company’s corporate and legal affairs unit in Europe.
Health Canada said the government plans to introduce amendments to the Tobacco Act this autumn to create a legal framework for the sale of e-cigarettes and...
The Court of Appeal issued a 30-day stay order on implementing new regulations for tobacco products to give retailers more time to sell non-compliant...
More than 1,000 persons afflicted with smoking-related cancers or addicted to tobacco have joined a brewing class-action suit against as yet unnamed tobacco...
The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) has worked in secret to block new technologies that reduce the risk of using tobacco products and thereby...
Taiwan Tobacco and Liquor (TTL) will turn the site of its 97-factory in downtown Taipei into a mixed-used park, allowing the state monopoly to cut losses and...
Tobacco retailers have appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for representation at the November plenary session of the World Health Organisation’s...
Philip Morris International inaugurated a production-scale factory for heat-not-burn products capable of producing 30 billion units a year, the company said.
Japan Tobacco (JT) plans to launch Ploom Tech in cities across Japan next year to challenge Philip Morris International’s iQOS heat-not-burn product, Reuters...
Damage to DNA from smoking fades over time but remains present for decades and possibly forever, according to a study reviewed in an American Heart Association...
E-cigarette maker NJoy has asked a Delaware federal court for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, citing an accumulated debt of USD 234.4 million (EUR 209.7...
Chinese growers are taking over operation of local tobacco farms and investing substantial sums to turn around two decades of mismanagement since the...
Former House of Representatives speaker John Boehner was named to the board of directors at Reynolds American (RAI), where he will serve on the panel for...
South African cigarette maker Gold Leaf Tobacco asked the Zimbabwean Supreme Court to overturn a High Court bar to the company selling its RG brand on the...
A boiler explosion and fire at flexible-and-tobacco packaging company Tampaco Foils killed at least 31 employees near the capital city Dhaka, the news service...
The Food and Drug Administration is taking applications for voting members to serve on the expert panel of advisors to the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products...
Pamela Gorman, former government relations chief at NJoy and founder of a vaping industry consulting firm, will replace Cynthia Cabrera as executive director...
Legislators voted 108-13 to approve legislation requiring unitary packaging on tobacco products, clearing the way for implementation in 2017, the NZ Herald...