Category :News This Week

Public Health England (PHE) yesterday launched a new campaign to highlight how ‘smoking damages the body and causes a slow and steady decline in a process similar to rotting’, according to a GOV.UK press Read More

Liberty city council members have voted 5-1 to repeal a city-wide public places smoking ban that was passed narrowly in November, according to a story by Larry Rowell for The Casey County News. Liberty is Read More

Tobacco cultivation is increasing in Bangladesh and anti-tobacco campaigners want the government to intervene, according to a bdnews24.com story. The campaigners were said to have cited figures from the Directorate of Agricultural Expansion showing Read More

KT&G said on Thursday that the prices of all its cigarettes sold on the South Korean market would increase by WON2,000 (US$1.80) starting on January 1, according to a Korea JoongAng Daily story. The Read More

With the price of cigarettes set to be increased sharply at the beginning of next year, KT&G is making forays into the electronic cigarette market, according to a story in The Korea Economic Read More

Abu Dhabi law-enforcers this year fined 816 people for throwing cigarette butts on the road, according to an Emirates 24/7 story. ‘Most of those fined were caught red-handed dumping their cigarette butts on the ground in public Read More

Three leading US Democrats have written to 29 state attorneys general urging them to classify electronic cigarettes as cigarettes under the Master Settlement Agreement. ‘This action would have an immediate and much needed impact because it Read More

People in Taiwan caught smoking while driving on ‘busy roads’ will be liable to a fine of NT$600 under a package of amendments to the Road Traffic Management and Penalty Act due to come into Read More

The Indian Commerce Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, has agreed to consider favourably a request to allow foreign buyers to participate directly in tobacco auctions, according to a story in the latest issue of the BBM Bommidala Read More

Tobacco cases are taking their toll on Florida’s court system, according to a story in Northwest Florida News. The Florida Supreme Court has called on state lawmakers to fund three additional circuit judge positions Read More