Category :News This Week

The European Commission has issued a draft delegated directive establishing a new library of 42 graphic warnings to be used as part of the revised EU Tobacco Products Directive agreed earlier this year. Combined graphic and Read More

Cigar Ambassador is to hold its 2014 China Cigar Festival at Shanghai on October 27-31. This, the third such festival, will start on October 27 with a welcome party. It will include sessions on China’s cigar Read More

Kimberly Hesse has joined Global Laboratory Services as business development manager. She brings with her a solid marketing and advertising background plus six years of experience in the tobacco laboratory industry. Global Laboratory Services offers Read More

More than 1.2 million counterfeit goods and 130 million cigarettes have seized during a two-week international joint customs operation co-ordinated by the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF). According to a European Commission press note, the operation, code-named REPLICA, Read More

France is due to introduce standardized packaging for cigarettes in 2016, according to an Agence France Presse report citing an announcement by Health Minister Marisol Touraine on Wednesday. In the wake of the introduction of standardized Read More

Philip Morris International on Friday officially opened its first pilot plant for the production of potentially reduced-risk products (RRPs). The pilot plant, at Zola Predosa about 11 km west of Bologna, Italy, is now in operation. Read More

The European Court of Justice on Thursday rejected Italy’s application of higher excise duties on cheaper cigarettes, according to an AGI (Agenzia Giornalistica Italia) news agencystory. The ruling ends the legal action initiated by Read More

Electronic cigarettes may be shown in UK television advertisements from November 10, according to a BBC news story quoting the Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP). Ruling for the first time specifically on electronic cigarettes, the CAP Read More

The sixth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP6) to the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control was due to start at the World Trade Center Moscow today. COP6 is expected Read More

The proportion of smokers among the UK’s adult population has fallen to its lowest level since recording started in the 1940s, according to a story in The Guardian. Official figures suggest that the habit’Read More