Bhutan has amended for the second time the Tobacco Control Act it introduced in 2010, but the ban on the distribution and sale of tobacco products remains in force, according to a Kuensel Online story. The Read More
Health professionals and tobacco control experts in China have called for tobacco advertising to be outlawed “fully,” according to a story in the People’s Daily. They are concerned that a draft amendment to the Read More
Goodrich Tobacco Co., a subsidiary of 22nd Century Group, has signed a letter of intent with Orion, a cigarette manufacturer in Poland, to contract manufacture the company’s proprietary tobacco products to be distributed in Read More
FlexLink has opened a sales and engineering facility in Johannesburg, South Africa, to support customers in the Sub-Sahara region. In addition to selling and engineering of new installations, the new unit will provide aftermarket support Read More
Hauni Maschinenbau has opened an office in Cape Town, South Africa, to support customers throughout Africa. The office will be housed on the premises of Reitech, which provided support services for Hauni’s Sub-Saharan customers Read More
The authorities in China are planning to increase the national tobacco tax in the hope of persuading more smokers to quit their habit, according to a Want China Times story quoting the Chinese-language Beijing News. Read More
E-cigarettes have been included for the first time in official NHS (National Health Service) Scotland guidance aimed at helping smokers quit their habit, according to a story by Lyndsay Buckland for The Scotsman. The new Read More
Zimbabwe’s flue-cured sales, which are still in progress, have already seen more leaf sold than was traded during the whole of the 2013 sales season, according to a story in The Independent quoting Tobacco Industry Read More
More than 12,000 people in Saudi Arabia suffer from cancer every year, and tobacco smoking remains the cause of 40 percent of cancer cases there, according to an Arab News story quoting local media and data released Read More
U.K. MPs have signed an Early Day Motion (EDM) in support of the stance taken by 53 health specialists in encouraging the World Health Organization to adopt tobacco harm reduction policies. A story based on Read More