Category :News This Week

British American Tobacco has launched its latest Sustainability Focus Report, Supporting Farmers’ Livelihoods: The Opportunity, which highlights what it says is ‘the important role’ played by the 100,000 tobacco farmers who supply the company. According to Read More

Despite being a conglomerate that runs luxury hotels and sells notebooks and clothing, as well as cigarettes, ITC’s bread and butter continues to be the tobacco business, according to a story by Kiran Kabtta Read More

French MPs have approved, against the opinion of the government, two amendments that would raise the tax on cigars and cigarillos in line with that imposed on cigarettes, according to a story in Le Figaro. Read More

Russia’s parliament, the Duma, is due to consider revising the country’s anti-smoking laws by reintroducing smoking rooms and special outdoor smoking areas at the country’s airports and train stations, according to a Read More

A politician in Tasmania, Australia, plans to introduce to the state’s upper house a private member’s bill that would restrict the sale of tobacco products to people born in or after 2000, according to Read More

Faced with falling prices and government apathy, Malawi’s tobacco growers feel they are between a rock and a hard place, according to an Anadolu Agency story. “I will stop growing the crop if the Read More

Philip Morris USA’s domestic cigarette shipment volume during the third quarter to the end of September, at 33.165 billion, was 2.8 percent lower than it was during the third quarter of 2013, 34.117 billion. Marlboro volume was down Read More

Luxembourg’s Cancer Foundation has condemned a government decision to compensate for a two percent VAT increase on tobacco products by reducing excise duty from January 1, according to a story in the Luxembourg Wort. Speaking Read More

Japan Tobacco Inc.’s domestic cigarette sales volume during the six months from April to September, at 53.5 billion, was down by 10.2 percent on that of April-September 2013, 59.6 billion. In announcing this morning its consolidated results, JT Read More

Medical specialists in New Zealand are warning that health outcomes for Māori will suffer a setback if the government signs up to the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), according to a story by Laura Bootham Read More