Category :News This Week

Public administration buildings in South Lebanon are due to become tobacco smoke-free zones from March 1, according to a story by Mohammed Zaatari for the Daily Star that quoted an announcement by the South Lebanon Governor Read More

Iggesund Paperboard is working with the American crowdsourcing company Crowdspring to challenge the world’s designers to improve existing consumer packaging. “Every day we all see examples of packaging that could be improved by a Read More

Lorillard said yesterday that it would release its fourth quarter and full year 2014 results on February 11, before the market opens. The news release is due to be made available under the Investor Relations section of Read More

Foreign cigarette makers in Korea outperformed Korean brands in market share due to their low-price strategies. According to data from the nation’s two convenience store chains, foreign brands earned about 55 percent market share in Read More

Philip Morris USA’s cigarette shipment volume during the 12 months to the end of December, at 125,390 million, was down by 3.0 percent on that of the 12 months to the end of December 2013, 129,312 million. Marlboro shipments were Read More

In another crackdown on smokers, Turkey’s health ministry is planning to introduce measures that will make it compulsory for people to show identification cards when buying tobacco products, according to a story in the Read More

In the UK, as many as 100 Conservative MPs are expected to vote against plans to impose standardized packaging for cigarettes and fine-cut tobacco, according to a story in The Daily Telegraph. There was widespread surprise Read More

An EU ‘high level working party’ is due to meet on Thursday to discuss electronic cigarette taxation. According to a note from the general secretariat of the Council of the EU, item five on the Read More

Imperial Tobacco Canada has entered the debate about electronic cigarettes, which are not approved for sale in Canada but which are available for purchase. In a letter published in the Montreal Gazette, Caroline Ferland, vice Read More

In various parts of the world, smokers have been seen as smelly and not normal, whatever that might mean, and now a councilman in Seoul, South Korea, apparently feels that those who smoke on sidewalks Read More