Climate change-induced droughts have affected tobacco crops in southern Africa and due to the due in yields, some tobacco producing companies have had to let...
Archive - February 2024
New Zealand’s government will repeal a world-first law banning tobacco sales for future generations that was set to take effect from July, reports...
International sales of Cuban cigars, the island nation's top export, rose 31 per cent last year as global demand for luxury goods increases, reports AFP.
At...
The Scottish Government is joining England and Wales by publishing draft legislation to ban disposable e-cigarettes, reports the Independent.
In a bid to...
The Bundestag has decided on the controlled liberalisation of cannabis in Germany, reports Tagesschau.
Possession and cultivation of the drug is to become...
New research has found that many Australians are concerned about the widespread availability of illegal vapes and back stronger regulations including a ban...
On 22 February, KT&G’s CEO Candidate Recommendation Committee conducted comprehensive face-to-face interviews with the four candidates on the second...
The company plans to sell its NJOY vape products in blueberry and watermelon flavours but in a way that will make sure kids have no way of using them, reports...
The Thai government is looking into a ban on the recreational use of cannabis, two years after its decriminalization, reports Bloomberg.
Thailand is looking...
Zimbabwe's tobacco exports increased by 231 per cent in the week ending 16 February, earning the country USD 351.1 million, reports NewsDay...
Germany's government plans to pass the cannabis law in the Bundestag this week, reports Stern.
The so-called "traffic light coalition" wants to pass the...
Rishi Sunak has been urged to rethink his policy on banning disposable vapes with critics saying the same policy has been “ineffective” in Australia...
Spain has introduced new laws to improve the health of its citizens. From 12 February, 20 new rules have been put in place including tough rules on smoking in...
Less than a year after the bill’s first reading in the Ukrainian parliament, President Vladamir Zelensky signed the legislation permitting the prescription...
Italy's AGCM competition watchdog has fined British American Tobacco (BAT) EUR 6 million for failing to provide sufficient information about the nicotine...
British American Tobacco has announced that it was working on divesting some of its nearly 30 per cent stake in India’s largest tobacco company ITC, reports...
PMI’s fourth-quarter 2023 results reveal its heated tobacco product, IQOS, has overtaken its leading cigarette brand, Marlboro, in terms of net revenues for...
Japan Tobacco Inc. (JT) has released its full-year results for 2023, with a 6.9 per cent increase in revenue to JPY 2,841.1 billion (USD 19.04 billion)...
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) has announced that its CEO Deborah Arnott will be retiring on 30 September after 21 years, according to an ASH press...
The Egyptian subsidiary of Philip Morris International, Philip Morris Misr, is increasing the prices on all of its heated tobacco products and cigarettes...