Health schools at 17 universities across the US and Canada have ruled out accepting research grants from The Foundation for a Smoke-Free World, a foundation...
Archive - January 2018
The government has asked the country’s top court to apply a classification to tobacco that would remove the industry’s legal right to trade and make it...
Robert B. Fulford, Jr. has been named the new CEO of U.S. Tobacco Cooperative, the company said in a press release.
The Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee (TPSAC) has concluded that evidence does not support Philip Morris International’s (PMI) claim that its...
Philip Morris International (PMI) told an advisory panel it expects 6 million US smokers to switch to its IQOS tobacco heating device if the company is allowed...
According to a report conducted by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, e-cigarettes are found to be less harmful than conventional...
The European Commission has completed a review of the EU Directive governing the taxation of tobacco products and says no changes will be made, Tax News...
The Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee will discuss modified risk tobacco product (MRTP) applications for the Philip Morris IQOS device and...
JT’s domestic sales in December slipped 16.5 per cent compared to the same period last year, while the cigarette maker’s domestic sales January through...
According to official data from Statistics Norway, the smoking population has decreased by half in the last decade in Norway, and it was also surpassed by the...
The Ministry of Strategy and Finance has said tax and customs officers will be taking measures to clamp down on the hoarding of heat-not-burn cigarettes in...
According to a new study by the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), non-smoking youth who use e-cigarettes, smokeless tobacco or tobacco water pipe...
Europe’s largest pension fund, ABP, has said it will dump tobacco and nuclear arms holdings from its portfolio in 2018, the Financial Times reported.
Major supermarket chain confirms it is trialling the sale of nicotine-free e-cigarette products in stores, the New Zealand Herald reported.
The smoking population has decreased by 1.1 percentage points to 3.99 million in Beijing since June 2015, Xinhuanet reported.
The number of registered tobacco growers in 2017/2018 has increased by 40 per cent in Zimbabwe, the Chronicle reported.
British American Tobacco (BAT) has said recently passed U.S. tax cuts could increase earnings per share by 6 per cent in 2018, supporting its dedication to...
A global survey has shown that about 69 per cent of individuals who try smoking begin to smoke on a regular basis, according to a press release by Queen Mary...
The report titled Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS) as a Substitute for Conventional Cigarettes is an evidence-based audit of published scientific...
Ten medical associations and 453 doctors have penned an appeal to Prime Minister Narendra Modi against the Karnataka High Court (HC) which passed an order to...