Reynolds American (RAI) said Debra Crew would remain as president and chief executive officer if the takeover by British American Tobacco is concluded as...
Archive - May 2017
The World Health Organisation released its first-ever report on the environmental impact of the tobacco industry to commemorate the WHO-sponsored World No...
Roberta Palazetti, president of British American Tobacco in Japan, said BAT will expand marketing of its “glo” tobacco heating device to Tokyo and Osaka...
A 100 per cent levy on tobacco products and energy drinks will be imposed from 10 June to help close a budget gap caused by low oil prices, the Arab News said.
The Tobacco Journal International newsletter is being distributed to subscribers one day early on 24 May due to a public holiday the following day...
Boris Titov, the ombudsman for Russian business, called for a unified state system to control illicit trade in tobacco products, which conservative estimates...
A federal judge fined United Parcel Service USD 247 million (EUR 221 million) for shipping untaxed cigarettes often originating on Indian reservations to...
The Food and Drug Administration has accepted an application by Philip Morris International for modified risk approval from the FDA for its iQOS tobacco...
Oettinger Davidoff formally opened a 14,500 m² (156,000 ft²) cigar factory and storage facility in Danlí, Honduras, in response to growing demand for its...
The Federal Tax Authority announced a 100 per cent tax on tobacco products and energy drinks to be implemented this year, according to the Gulf News
Shifang, a city in the tobacco growing region of Sichuan province, is planning a museum dedicated to cigar history and technology as the centrepiece of a...
Ghebreyesus will begin a five-year term on 1 July, WHO said in a statement. The next WHO chief left his post as foreign minister last year, after four years in...
Philip Morris International is test marketing a product employing new technology described by PMI as a mesh patch to heat e-liquids that eliminates manual...
Stuart Thompson resigned as chief executive of U.S. Tobacco Cooperative (USTC) and has been replaced on an interim basis by Chief Financial Officer Edward...
Japan Tobacco (JT) will expand brick-and-mortar sales of Ploom TECH to Tokyo in late June and expects to launch its tobacco heater nationwide in the first half...
The Food and Drug Administration should make use of its powers to regulate cigarette design by imposing stricter controls “up to and including a ban” on...
President Rodrigo Duterte signed an executive order banning smoking in all public places and the sale of tobacco products to minors, the Philippine Star said.
Philip Morris Korea said it will begin selling the iQOS tobacco heating stick in Seoul on 5 June, making it the first tobacco company to introduce...
Scientists at British American Tobacco have developed a technique to detect unpredicted substances in e-cigarette vapour, BAT said.
Mighty Corp, the country’s second largest tobacco company, and British American Tobacco (BAT) have held exploratory talks on a distribution partnership...