Imperial Brands Ventures, a subsidiary of Imperial Brands, has taken an undisclosed equity share in the medicinal cannabis research company, Oxford Cannabinoid...
Archive - June 2018
The Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products will enter into force in 90 days following its fortieth ratification by the United Kingdom of Great...
Juul Labs has appointed Gerald F Masoudi, who served as Chief Council of the US Food and Drug Administration, as its Chief Legal Officer, the e-vapour company...
A panel of judges at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has rejected arguments brought by Cuba, Indonesia, Honduras and the Dominican Republic, ruling in...
Cigarette makers have said the timeline for new federal regulations that will see cigarettes sold in standardised ‘slide and shell’ format packs is...
22nd Century Group has licensed several new non-GMO, Very Low Nicotine (VLN) flue-cured and burley tobacco varieties, the plant biotechnology company said.
Philip Morris Germany said the planned construction of a EUR 275 million (USD 321 million) Heets facility in Dresden has been put on hold while worldwide...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee (TPSAC) will hold a public meeting on 13 and 14 September to discuss...
Newspaper The Guardian said an investigation by its journalists showed child labour is increasing in the poorer countries where tobacco is grown, despite...
The Ministry of Health said tax hikes on tobacco have led to more smokers seeking medical help to quit smoking, the Saudi Gazette reported.
Smoking prevalence among US adults has hit a record low of 14 per cent, according to a press release from the Associated Press in New York Times.
The Delhi government has asked the food safety department of the Union health ministry to have raw chewable tobacco products like khaini labelled as a food and...
The Counter Counterfeit Committee (CCC) of the Interior Ministry has halted operations at a cigarette factory found to be producing tobacco products without a...
Tobacco farmers have already sold 190 million kg of leaf and are likely to surpass the targeted tobacco output of 200 million kg for the 2017/2018 marketing...
A French government official has announced that the government will impose new regulations on cigarette litter, if tobacco companies do not formally commit to...
The European Environment Agency (EEA) has reported that new data shows that cigarette butts are the most commonly found individual item on European beaches...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported that the percentage of US high school teen smokers has decreased from 24.2 per cent in 2011...
British American Tobacco (BAT) said it will invest in expanding its factory in Ploiești, Romania, to build a dedicated facility for producing its...
Farmers had sold USD 515 million (EUR 436 million) of tobacco leaf by the close of day 52 of the 2018 marketing season, an increase of USD 95 million on gross...
Philip Morris International (PMI) plans to launch its IQOS heated tobacco platform in the nation with the largest smoking population after China, Reuters...