More than one in eight packets of cigarettes consumed by smokers in Ireland last year were illegal, and the number of counterfeit products sold has risen...
Archive - May 2022
A new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) and tobacco watchdog STOP outlines how the tobacco industry has been working to rehabilitate its image by...
BAT’s US indirect subsidiary, R. J. Reynolds Vapor Company has received Marketing Authorization from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for certain...
22nd Century Group, Inc. has announced the acquisition of privately held GVB Biopharma, a leading hemp/cannabis company.
So far, Zimbabwean farmers have sold 64.8 million kilogrammes of tobacco, which is 22 per cent less than during the same period last year, reports The Zimbabwe...
A bill that would have banned the sale of most flavoured nicotine products in Colorado failed to get out of a Senate committee, putting it on hold for this...
JTI Leaf (Malawi) Limited says it will stop buying tobacco from farmers who will not not be curing their tobacco leaf in live barns by 2025, reports The Nation.
Swedish Match has agreed to a USD 16 billion takeover by Philip Morris International (PMI) with the deal now subject to shareholder approval, according to The...
India’s National Family Health Survey 5 (NFHS-5) has recently found that 38 per cent of men and 9 per cent of women above the age of 15 use tobacco products...
The Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) has released a statement to say that all farmers must be paid within two days after delivering their crops to...
A survey has shown that Croatia lost HRK 1.3 billion (EUR 173 million) in budget revenues in 2021 because of illegal trade in cigarettes and tobacco, reports...
Comprehensive legislation to address the devastating effects of tobacco consumption in Jamaica will soon be tabled in the House of Representatives, reports...
BAT’s Chairman Luc Jobin has given an update at the company’s annual general meeting, calling 2021 “a year of accelerated delivery, important strategic...
BAT Kenya paid contracted tobacco farmers KES1.2 billion (USD 10.28 million) for deliveries last year, down 14.8 per cent from KES 1.4 billion they received in...
Karnataka’s Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar has launched the India Vs Tobacco Campaign hoping to encourage youths, parents, and institutions to initiate a...
Export volumes have increased by 163 per cent in the first quarter of 2022 for British American Tobacco (BAT) thanks to cut rag and leaf tobacco shipments...
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) plans to impose a new tobacco tax of up to THB 0.10 (USD 0.003) per cigarette called “Tobacco Tax for Local...
Malawi looks to cannabis to make profits amid declining tobacco demand, reports Africanews.
The US Food and Drug Administration has issued a proposal to ban menthol cigarettes and flavoured cigars, reports Reuters.
From 30 April, Hong Kong will ban the import and sale of alternative smoking products (ASP) such as e-cigarettes, reports The Star.