Category :News This Week

Reynolds American Executive Vice President Andrew D. Gilchrist will become executive vice president and chief financial officer effective March 1, 2015. Gilchrist’s upcoming promotion was approved by the RAI board of directors at its meeting on Read More

Two entrepreneurs who launched one of the UK’s first electronic cigarette brands have partnered with a global supplier of pharmaceutical nicotine to build at Liverpool, the UK, Europe’s largest outsourced manufacturing facility for Read More

A PETA International Science Consortium advisor, Joseph Manuppello, will present the ‘Animal Protection Perspective’ at a workshop sponsored by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) intended to identify in vitro models and assays for Read More

The UK Treasury is to launch a consultation on a potential levy on the tobacco industry, according to a story by Jill Treanor for The Guardian. Although the Chancellor, George Osborne, did not mention the Read More

Calling foreign cigarettes unpatriotic, North Korean leader and smoker Kim Jong Un ordered senior officials to smoke only domestic cigarettes, reports the International Business Times. It is unclear whether the directive applies also to counterfeit Read More

Researchers from the University of Bath, in the United Kingdom, found no independent evidence supporting the tobacco industry’s arguments against plain packaging, reports the Jersey Evening Post. In a study released on Dec. 3, the Read More

A German court has ruled that the liquids contained in e-cigarettes aren’t medicinal products and can be sold freely, reports the Associated Press The Federal Administrative Court delivered its verdict Thursday in a case Read More

Philip Morris Fortune Tobacco Co. (PMFTC), a subsidiary of Philip Morris International, will invest more than 50 million in Virginia tobacco production on Mindanao, Philippines, over the next five to six years, according to local press Read More

After 95 years in Bielefeld, Germany, Neotechnik is moving to Telgte-Westbevern. As of Jan. 1, 2015, the company’s contact details will be: Lengericher Str. 22 48291 Telgte-Westbevern Germany Telephone +49 (0)2504/9800-600 Fax: +49 (0)2504/9800-601Read More

The Dominican Republic is hoping that its dispute with Australia over standardized tobacco-products packaging will be resolved by the World Trade Organization (WTO) before such policies spread to other countries. Since December 1, 2012, Australia has required Read More