Research from New York University (NYU) School of Medicine and the NYU College of Global Public Health has found that states with strong tobacco control...
Archive - February 2018
The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has initiated an eighteen-month ‘Healthy City Programme’ to enforce the country's ban on smoking and consuming...
Fines given to violators of anti-tobacco laws amounted to RUB 124 million (USD 2.2 million) in 2017, consumer rights agency Rospotrebnadzor announced through...
A case that would have seen Big Tobacco companies accused of attempted murder and manslaughter will not be pursued by the Dutch public prosecutor's...
The Lithuanian tobacco regulator has questioned whether Philip Morris International’s (PMI) IQOS tobacco heating device is an electronic product, saying it...
There has been a 10 per cent increase in excise duty on all tobacco products in Singapore, Channel NewsAsia reported.
The American Cancer Society (ACS) has released a position statement on e-cigarettes in which the organisation encourages smokers unwilling to quit smoking to...
British American Tobacco (BAT) has reported strong 2017 full-year results, with revenue and operating profit, adjusted for the impact of its RAI acquisition...
Days after announcing a 21.2 per cent drop in its net profit, BAT Kenya has called for a more “stable” tax environment, according to a story in Business...
Federal government agency Health Canada has issued a tender notice to suppliers for the purchase of one million ‘very low-nicotine’ (VLN) cigarettes as...
Police and licensing officials raided and shuttered a Bulacan cigarette factory churning out counterfeit Philip Morris and Mighty cigarettes, Inquirer Business...
Data compiled by the finance ministry showed a near 4 per cent drop in cigarette sales over 2017, Yonhap news agency reported.
Sales at Swedish Match increased by 2 per cent in the fourth quarter and by 4 per cent for the full year, compared to the corresponding periods in 2016, the...
Richmond-based leaf merchant Universal Corporation said its Board of Directors has named Johan C. Kroner to succeed David C. Moore as its Chief Financial...
Leaf merchant Universal Corporation saw a drop in operating income for the 9 months ended 31 December 2017 and third-quarter results were also down, the...
Philip Morris International Inc. (PMI) has just released fourth-quarter and 2017 full-year results which show that its net revenues have increased by 4.2 per...
Altria Group, Inc. has announced that its Board of Directors has selected Mark E. Newman to the group’s Board, according to a company press release.
Philip Morris International (PMI) has just announced that it will be hosting a live audio webcast on fourth-quarter and full-year results on Thursday, 8...
Japan Tobacco Inc. (JT) has announced that it will be increasing investments in modified-risk products in the coming year, as domestic cigarette volume sales...
Cigarette maker, Korea Tobacco & Ginseng Company, sold more cigarettes outside of South Korea last year than ever before, according to a story in the Korean...