The Tobacco Board has raised the 2017-2018 crop allotment for the Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka growing regions to 136 million kg, The Hindu reported.
Archive - August 2017
Hans-Kristian Hoejsgaard has stepped down as chief executive officer of Oettinger Davidoff where he has been replaced by Beat Hauenstein, formerly chief...
The Cabinet of Ministers has approved a strategy to control the manufacture, sale and shipment of illicit tobacco products across the Ukrainian border...
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio signed into law a series of anti-tobacco measures that will substantially raise cigarette prices and set limits on the...
Lawmakers began reviewing a bill that would leave the tobacco leaf tax imposed a decade ago unchanged at 20 per cent, Xinhua said.
Imperial Brands and Japan Tobacco International (JTI) have hired restructuring experts to keep cigarette wholesaler Palmer and Harvey (P&H) from collapse, The...
Japan Tobacco (JT) agreed to purchase the tobacco business of Mighty Corporation for PHP 46.8 billion (EUR 772 million) to further its strategy of regional...
Star Tobacco International (STI) said Group Finance Director Mehmet Ayyildiz will take on additional duties as vice president for the Indonesian region, a...
Tobacco volume at 187.1 million kg on 22 Aug as marketing season wound down is unlikely to reach the targeted 205 million kg due to inclement weather and...
British American Tobacco (BAT) faces a new call for an investigation into its African business practises, this one from an anti-smoking group that asked US...
Three proposals to hike the tax on tobacco heat sticks are before the National Assembly and may result in a substantial increase to achieve parity with...
The Health Ministry told Philip Morris International (PMI) the cigarette maker could face penalties for alleged violations of marketing restrictions placed on...
Alex MacKinnon, the director of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) Scotland, called for a review of the evidence on the impact of vaping and better quality...
A nearly unchanged smoking rate in a growing population has increased the number of smokers despite some of the world’s stiffest cigarette duties and...
Yaniv Nahon has replaced Vapor Group’s Dror Svorai, who resigned as president/chief executive officer and sold his stock in the company to SF Holdings, the...
The growing number of smokers switching to heat-not-burn products should reduce tobacco tax revenue by at least JPY 50 billion (EUR 387 million) this year...
British American Tobacco Zimbabwe said Angela Mashanyare resigned as BAT non-executive director effective 25 July and announced three appointments to the Board.
The Oklahoma Supreme Court struck down a USD 1.50 (EUR 1.28) per-pack tax on cigarettes, saying the duty passed earlier this year violated the state...
Oregon became the fifth US state to raise the minimum age to 21 for purchasing tobacco products, a statute that will take effect next January, The Oregonian...
The Food and Drug Administration said it will launch a campaign next year to dissuade youth from using vaping devices that deliver nicotine.