Category :News This Week

Ireland could create a “domino effect” internationally by becoming the first country in Europe to introduce plain packaging for tobacco products, according to a story by Paul Cullen for The Irish Times quoting one of Read More

Michael P. Auger, currently vice president of trade marketing development for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, is due to be promoted to the position of executive vice president of trade marketing for the company, effective Read More

A ‘novel windfall tax’ on the profits of UK tobacco companies would be used by a future Labour government to part fund its plans for reinvigorating the nation’s National Health Service, according to a Read More

A task force set up to consider ways of strengthening India’s tobacco regulations is recommending a ban on sales of loose cigarettes, which make up 70-75 percent of the industry’s volume, according to Read More

Flue-cured tobacco auctions in Andhra Pradesh, India, are nearing completion with about 213.21 million kg sold for an average price of Rs116.29 per kg, according to a story in the most recent issue of the BBM Read More

Purilum officially opened its new e-liquid development, manufacturing and fulfillment center on Sept. 17. The state-of-the-art facility, located Greenville, North Carolina, USA, includes multiple ISO 8 class 100,000 clean-room environments, segregated nicotine and non-nicotine mixing rooms, and fully-automated Read More

Phnom Penh’s City Hall warned tobacco companies at a meeting last week to stop flouting a sub-decree that is supposed to prohibit all forms of tobacco advertising, or else face fines or closure, according Read More

Volume sales of cigarettes in Peru declined moderately last year, according to a story by the Andina news agency quoting Euromonitor International. No figures were given but the report attributed the decline to the usual Read More

Nine countries had objected to Ireland’s plain tobacco packaging proposals by Thursday, the deadline for lodging such objections with the European Commission, according to a story in The Irish Times. The nine countries, Bulgaria, Read More

Despite the government’s efforts to crack down on cigarette hoarding, large numbers of smokers across Korea are managing to stock up ahead of a major price hike next year, according to a story in Read More