After being heavily criticised, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) tobacco program is to be revamped with changes including a five-year strategic...
Archive - February 2023
According to the Wall Street Journal, Altria is in advanced talks to buy e-cigarette startup NJOY Holdings Inc for at least USD 2.75 billion, reports...
Philip Morris Limited (PML), the affiliate of Philip Morris International (PMI) in the UK and Ireland, has launched the disposable e-vapour device VEEBA in the...
A pack of cigarettes will cost HKD 12 (USD 1.53) more after the tobacco tax was raised in an attempt to reduce the number of smokers and boost the...
The Scandinavian Tobacco Group A/S has agreed on the terms and conditions for the acquisition of substantially all assets of Alec Bradley Cigar Distributors...
A study by sustainability think tank CE Delft has shown that users are continuing to discard cigarette butts despite campaigns to raise awareness of the...
In an interview with the Financial Times, Philip Morris International (PMI) Chief executive Jacek Olczak admitted that the tobacco group may never sell its...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that it has filed complaints against four makers of e-cigarette products, as the companies failed get...
Imperial Brands has launched the first all-new upgrade of its Pulze heated tobacco device, the company announced in a press release.
According to the press...
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is set to raise tobacco duty next month which could see the price of cigarettes going up by GBP 1.15, reports The Sun.
Smokers could...
Merchants and wholesalers in Pakistan have noticed a decrease in cigarette sales after the cost of cigarette packs went up due to a tax increase, reports the...
A piece of legislation that would see the sale of tobacco products banned to anyone born on or after 1 January 2007 has been introduced in California, reports...
After a six-month grace period, authorities in Mali have started to crackdown on shisha smoking with several arrests being made, reports africanews.
The...
The government in Zimbabwe has said that the hectarage of land planted under tobacco has risen by 4 per cent, reports NewsDay.
Lands, Agriculture...
Social media platform Twitter has become the first in the US to allow cannabis companies to advertise their brands and products, reports Reuters.
Twitter...
Reynolds American has asked the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to help put a stop to the production and sale of disposable e-cigarettes, reports...
The Singapore government will raise the excise duty on all tobacco products by 15 per cent from 14 February, reports The Business Times.
The increase is...
Japan Tobacco Inc. (JT) has released its fourth quarter and end-of-year results for 2022, with revenue increased by 14.3 per cent to JPY 2,657.8 billion (USD...
British American Tobacco (BAT) has reported its 2022 full-year results with revenue up 2.3 per cent, driven by new category growth and pricing.
"We continue...
From mid-May, smoking cannabis in public will be banned in Amsterdam's red-light district, as part of a set of policies to reduce nuisance for residents...