A company based in Clarence, New York, USA, has signed a deal under which its tobacco products will be made by a Polish cigarette manufacturer for distribution within the EU, according to a story by Read More
About 30 percent of Bulgarians, comprising more than 2.1 million people, are daily tobacco smokers, according to a Focus English News story quoting the World Health Organization report Global Tobacco Epidemic, which was released on Saturday. There Read More
France is preparing to place e-cigarette use on the same legal footing as tobacco smoking with draft legislation that aims to ban vaping in public places, according to a story by Paris-based Anne Penketh for Read More
The Delhi government plans to introduce a scheme whereby no tobacco or related products would be sold on the last day of each month, according to a story in The Times of India. The story Read More
Shops selling illicit tobacco in the Mearns, Scotland, are being hounded out of town by a new council recruit. According to a story by Martin Dalziel, Dixie the sniffer dog was used by the Aberdeenshire Read More
The second part of Russia’s anti-tobacco law came into force yesterday, extending public-places tobacco smoking bans to include, for instance, restaurants, hotels and railway platforms, according to an ITAR-TASS story. Ashtrays and hookas are Read More
Japan’s Finance Ministry is expected to change the regulations governing the opening of new cigarette outlets in a bid to avoid “excessive competition” among retailers at a time of falling sales, according to a Read More
A village in India’s Nagaland state has been declared the country’s first “tobacco-free village,” according to a story in the Hindustan Times. The declaration was made by principal secretary R Benchilo Thong on Read More
Essentra Filter Products has launched a plugwrap material that disperses in water at least three times faster than standard materials. The new plugwrap, which enables the manufacture of more environmentally friendly filters, can be used Read More