Category :News This Week

British American Tobacco Korea plans to launch Dunhill Pocket Pack, a limited edition, 14-cigarette pack that costs only krw3,000 ($2.75). Although the pack is smaller — most packs have 20 cigarettes — the seemingly inexpensive price might be an Read More

An Irish member of the European Parliament has sought to widen the standardized-packaging debate by placing it against the background of trade agreements currently being negotiated. In a written question to the European Commission, MEP Read More

A group of tobacco control activists and supporters staged a demonstration in Chennai, India, on Saturday demanding the closure of the ‘Tobacco Promotion Board’, according to a story in the Times of India. Members of Read More

Sixty five percent of Saudi secondary schoolgirls and 45 percent of the country’s intermediate schoolgirls are ‘smokers’, according to a story in Arab News quoting the results of a recently-published survey. The survey, conducted by Read More

Taxed cigarettes’ share of the Philippines’ market declined last year, according to a story in The Philippine Star quoting Philip Morris International’s fourth quarter and full-year report. PMI was quoted as saying that the Read More

Niels Frederiksen will take over on March 1 from Anders Colding Friis as the CEO of the Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG), according to a story in the Copenhagen Post. Frederiksen, who has more than 15 years of Read More

Zimbabwe is likely to push back the start of its tobacco marketing season by about a month from the traditional mid-February period. Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board Chief Executive Dr. Andrew Matibiri said that most Read More

Philip Morris International’s shipment volumes during the 12 months to the end of December, at 855,954 million, were down by 2.8 percent on those of the 12 months to the end of December 2013, 880,169 million. Volumes were increased by 0.1 Read More

Imperial Tobacco is due to launch a new electronic cigarette in France on Monday, a move that, according to a story by Martinne Geller for Reuters, will give the company a lifestyle brand to stand Read More

Twenty eight point nine percent of the cigarettes smoked in Latvia last year were contraband, according to a report in The Baltic Course (UK) citing a study carried out by AC Nielsen during the fourth Read More