The Tobacco Research Board warned farmers about the rapid spread of a highly destructive pest primarily found on tomato plants but one that also consumes...
Archive - November 2016
US Senator Ron Johnson sent a letter to FDA Commissioner Robert Califf warning that the Republican-controlled Congress may change or abolish portions of the...
Imperial Brands will close its Yaroslavl cigarette factory in January, making 284 employees redundant, Reuters reported.
Advertising for most tobacco products, including e-cigarettes and hookah, has been banned, the Azeri-Press Agency reported.
Japan Tobacco (JT) announced a change of leadership at its international unit and said it would to restructure its tobacco business next year to include a...
E-cigarettes would be treated as a separate product under a proposed amendment to the country’s Tobacco Act introduced in the Senate, the Canadian...
Health Minister Rajitha Senaratne said the government will act soon to ban the sale of single cigarettes, joining more than 100 countries that already have...
Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the complete ban on foreign direct investment (FDI) in the tobacco sector that her ministry has put...
A nationwide ban on smoking in public places circulated as a draft two years ago and building upon curbs in nearly 20 Chinese cities is expected to become law...
Sampoerna named Mindaugas Trumpaitis president director to replace Paul Norman Janelle, who headed the cigarette maker for four years, the Jakarta Post...
The appeal by cigarette makers of the CAD 15 billion (EUR 10.5 bln) award in a class-action suit brought by Quebec smokers began 21 Nov before the Quebec Court...
Essentra told investors that profit this year would be well below expectations due in part to weak Chinese demand for its tobacco filter products.
Tobacco curing consumes more than 20 per cent of the country’s annual wood production, according to a study cited by the newspaper Dawn.
Rising popularity of iQOS in Japan has allowed the heat-not-burn product from Philip Morris International to take nearly 5 per cent of the market for...
Tobacco Merchants Association President Farrell Delman, 66, will step down at the end of the year after more than four decades at the industry group, TMA said.
Health Minister Recep Akdag told Parliament the government may introduce plain packaging for cigarettes next year and impose a display ban on those products in...
Ministry input on banning direct foreign investment (FDI) in the tobacco sector has been assembled into a final note to the Cabinet, the Times of India said.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has withdrawn a rule to take effect in December that sets criteria for refusing to accept tobacco product applications...
Reynolds American (RAI) will consolidate sales and distribution for all its companies into a newly created subsidiary next year, the company said.
British American Tobacco (BAT) plans to invest EUR 1 billion in Romania and expand its Ploiesti plant to make it the company’s second largest cigarette...