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

Cuba exported 64.7 million machine-made small cigars between January and May, according to an EFE News Service story quoting a Monday statement by the state-controlled Internacional Cubana de Tabacos (ICT). Meanwhile, sales of such small cigars Read More

The Indonesian Consumers Foundation (YLKI) has named Indonesia’s House of Representatives’ building as one of the smokiest in Jakarta, according to a BERNAMA (Malaysian National News Agency) story. The naming—and shaming—came about Read More

Alliance One’s sales and other operating revenues during the year to the end of March, at $2,354.9 million, were up by 5 percent on those of the financial year that ended on March 31, 2013. The tobacco sales Read More