Category :News This Week

The value of Malawi’s leaf tobacco exports during the first five months of this year, at $137.7 million, were increased by 58 percent on those of the first five months of 2013, $87 million. The exports, which, in Read More

Japan Tobacco Inc’s domestic cigarette sales volume during June, at 8.9 billion, was down by 6.5 percent on that of June 2013, 9.5 billion, according to preliminary figures issued by the company today. The June 2013 figure was down Read More

Tobacco seed sales for Zimbabwe’s 2014–2015 flue-cured season, at 827,010 g, were up by almost 6 percent on those at the same stage of preparation for the 2013–2014 crop, 781,135 g, according to a story in The Herald quoting Read More

Philip Morris International is due to host a live audio webcast at www.pmi.com/webcasts from 9 a.m. Eastern Time on July 17 to discuss its 2014 second-quarter results, which will be issued around 7 a.m. Read More

The head of the World Health Organization, Margaret Chan, has told Chinese leaders there is a “real risk” that China’s economic achievements of the past three decades could be canceled out by the huge Read More

More must be done in the U.K. to help people with mental health issues stop tobacco smoking because a new study suggests that such people cost the economy more than £2 billion a year, according Read More

British American Tobacco could be on the verge of acquiring Reynolds American Inc., according to a story by Geoff Foster for This is Money’s Market Report. BAT’s shares, Foster noted, had fallen by 19.5 Read More

Cuts to Australia’s Tackling Indigenous Smoking program in this year’s budget will contribute to the early deaths of Aboriginal smokers, according to a story by Sarah Dingle for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation quoting Read More

Tobacco control campaigners in China on Monday protested against smoking scenes in the movie Transformers, according to a Xinhua Newswire story, which said that the film had broken the country’s box office record. In Read More

A nicotine replacement product is to be allowed to go on general sale in Ireland for the first time following a decision to relax the rule that has confined the availability of such products to Read More