Ireland was the third highest on a list of EU countries for non-duty-paid tobacco (NDP) in 2013, according to a Sunday World story, which did not include the source of its figures. It came behind Latvia Read More
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Taiwan is to introduce less scary graphic images on cigarette pack warnings in the hope of getting smokers at least to look at them, according to a report on Focus Taiwan News Channel. The country’Read More
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The Altria Group said yesterday that its subsidiary Nu Mark had completed the acquisition of the e-vapor business of Green Smoke and its affiliates. The transaction is valued at about $110 million in cash and up Read More
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The World Health Organization said on Friday that China needed a comprehensive ban on tobacco advertising in order to reduce smoking prevalence in the country, according to a Xinhua News Agency story. What was being Read More
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Alliance One International said yesterday that its Brazilian subsidiary, Alliance One Brasil Exportadora de Tabacos (AOB), and China Tabaco Internacional do Brasil (CTIB), the Brazilian subsidiary of China Tobacco, had formed the joint-venture company China Read More
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Philip Morris International yesterday released its second progress report on implementation of the company’s Agricultural Labor Practices program (ALP). The program aims progressively to eliminate child labor and other labor abuses on the 490,000 farms (Read More
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Imperial Tobacco’s factory in Nantes, France, has been awarded a Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certificate for the use of sustainable materials in its product packaging. The international certificate serves as a guarantee for consumers Read More
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Lorillard has elected Jerry W. Levin to its board of directors, effective immediately. The board is now composed of nine members, eight of whom are non-executive independent directors. Levin serves as executive chairman of the Read More
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April 1, 2014
The designer of a new smoking cessation device is seeking funding through the crowd-funding platform Indiegogo, according to a press note issued through PRNewswire. Mynus is said to be a “small, sleek-looking device” that “will Read More
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A tobacco control group has accused tobacco companies of having encouraged scare stories predicting that the introduction of standardized packaging for tobacco products would boost cigarette smuggling, according to a story by Jamie Doward for Read More
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