Reynolds American (RAI) celebrated its 10th anniversary on Friday with a closing bell ceremony at the New York Stock Exchange. Susan M. Cameron, RAI’s president and CEO, joined a group of other company employees Read More
Alliance One International has appointed John R. Heffernan as vice president and treasurer. An AOI press note posted on its website said that Heffernan was bringing to the company more than 25 years of experience in Read More
More than 22,000 Turkish retailers risk losing their licenses to sell cigarettes under an anti-tobacco law being drafted by the government, according to a story in the Hurriyet Daily News. If passed, the proposed law would Read More
Forty percent of U.K. doctors believe that e-cigarettes should be available only from pharmacies, according to a WalesOnline story quoting a recent poll. Thirteen percent of doctors believe the devices should be prescription-only, 16 percent Read More
Japan’s smoking incidence fell below 20 percent in May, according to the Japan Smoking Rate Survey that has been conducted annually by Japan Tobacco Inc. since 1965. The overall incidence of smoking stands at 19.7 percent, down Read More
The Indian minister of health and family welfare, Dr. Harsh Vardhan, has written to Arun Jaitley, the minister of finance and the minister of defense, urging that the armed forces stop selling tobacco products at Read More
Essentra Filter Products has launched Dual Sensation, a filter that enables a capsule segment to be combined within a multisegment filter. In a press note announcing the new filter, Essentra said that it provided cigarette Read More