Category :News This Week

KT&G Corp. reported net income of KRW813.8 billion ($751.9 million) in 2014, up from KRW559.3 billion in 2013, reports The Korea Times. Operating profit went up 15.6 percent on-year to KRW1.17 trillion last year, and sales gained 7.6 Read More

In asking a number of questions about the state of leaf tobacco production in the EU, the Hungarian member of the European parliament, Norbert Erdős, has again raised the issue of whether certain types Read More

In the city of Tauranga, New Zealand, smokers who grow their own leaf tobacco are making money by using websites and social media pages to sell tobacco plant seeds to others looking to reduce their Read More

The US Food and Drug Administration says that its second public workshop on electronic cigarettes is due to be held on March 9-10. The first of a series of three planned workshops was held last Read More

Cigar aficionados are now bidding in C.Gars’ online vintage cigar auction, which is due to end on February 1. The auction includes 270 lots of vintage, mature and limited-edition Cuban and Dominican cigars and is expected Read More

ITC’s profit during the quarter that ended on December 31, at Rs26.35 billion, fell slightly short of analysts’ estimates of Rs26.92 billion as higher taxes on cigarettes and a government push to discourage tobacco consumption Read More

Vapor products seem to have hit a rocky patch in the US and it is possible that only well thought out regulation will help smooth the way ahead. Bonnie Herzog, the managing director of Beverage, Read More

Legislation aimed at imposing in the UK standardized packaging for cigarettes and fine-cut tobacco is due to be put before parliament during the current session, which is scheduled to end on March 30. Many observers had Read More

Japan Tobacco International has rejected a trade union plan to save 500 jobs at the Gallaher cigarette factory site in Northern Ireland, according to a story by Henry McDonald for The Guardian. Unite, the union representing Read More

The health minister of Canada’s Quebec province, Gaétan Barrette, has come out in favour of using electronic cigarettes as a way to quit smoking, according to a story by Geoffrey Vendeville for the Read More