A Wellington court has given the New Zealand division of Philip Morris International (PMI) the okay to sell its HEETS tobacco consumable for the IQOS device...
Archive - March 2018
The Tobacco Control Commission (TCC) says that the estimates of Malawi’s 2018 tobacco crop has been reduced to 14 per cent below trade requirements, The...
Swedish Match has acquired the privately held smokeless tobacco company House of Oliver Twist, the company said in a press release.
Austria’s lower house of parliament has voted in favour of overturning a ban on smoking in restaurants and bars, which is scheduled to come into effect May...
Alliance One International will not buy US burley tobacco leaf this year, according to a statement made by the company to Tobacco Farmer Newsletter.
Twenty-eight tonnes of illegally-grown tobacco and 45,000 seedlings have been destroyed by authorities near the provincial Queensland city of Bundaberg, the...
The company said that its decision to dispose of its other tobacco products (OTP) business, which includes roll-your-own brands, tubes, tips, cigarette papers...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released advanced notice of proposed rulemaking in consideration of lowering nicotine levels in cigarettes sold...
Japan Tobacco (JT) has agreed to acquire the Russian cigarette maker Donskoy Tabak in a move JT said will reinforce its leading position in the Russian market...
The 17th World Conference on Tobacco or Health (WCTOH) has asked governments to create a plan to phase out the sale of tobacco products by 2021 and advised...
Stores will be permitted to sell old stock of branded cigarette packets until 6 June 2018. After this date only plain cigarette packaging can be sold...
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) wants to ban the smoking of shisha and the use of electronic cigarettes this year, according to comments made by a GHS official...
The World Health Organisation has launched new guidance on the laboratory testing of tobacco products as a tool in tobacco product regulation at the 17th World...
Net sales revenue at 22nd Century Group, Inc. for the full year 2017 increased by 35.2 per cent over 2016 and was the highest net sales result in the plant...
A new watchdog agency has been launched using funding from philanthropist Michael Bloomberg to monitor the tactics of the tobacco industry and cigarette...
Japan Tobacco Inc. (JT) has announced it will expand the sales area of the Ploom TECH starter kit and tobacco capsules to five prefectures in Japan from 19...
Philip Morris International is defending one charge of selling a “non-burning tobacco product” in the Wellington district court in a case brought by the...
Star Tobacco International has announced a corporate rebranding that sees the company’s trading name changed from Star Tobacco International (STI) to Star...
Legislation passed by the House of Representatives this week will seek to apply tougher penalties to those found to be involved in the manufacture and trade of...
A one-euro increase in the price of cigarettes has brought the average price of packs sold in France to EUR 8 (USD 9.80), The Associated Press reported.