Category :News This Week

Egypt’s Minister of Social Solidarity said yesterday that the age at which people started to smoke had dropped to 10, according to Ahram Online quoting Al-Ahram’s Arabic news website. It wasn’t clear from Read More

Cigarettes are in short supply in Nepal as traders hoard tobacco products in expectation that their prices will go up after the budget, according to a story in Republica. The budget is scheduled to be Read More

Altria is due to host a live audio webcast beginning at 9 a.m. Eastern Time on July 22 to discuss its 2014 second-quarter business results, which will be published in a press note about 7 a.m. on Read More

A park in Paris is due to ban tobacco smoking as part of a trial that, if it proves to be popular, could pave the way for smoking to be banned in all public parks, Read More

Maharashtra may soon become the first state in India to ban the consumption of smokeless tobacco in defined public places, according to a story in The Times of India. The state public health department has Read More

The program for the ECMA Pro Carton Congress “What’s Up on Cartons? Multiple Challenges Ahead” has been finalized, according to the organizers. The congress is due to be held in Sorrento, Italy, on Sept. 17Read More

An investor conference focusing on the JT Group’s tobacco business is due to be held in London on Sept. 19. According to a note posted on JT’s website, the conference will include “an update Read More

A group of Imperial Tobacco’s Italian employees have spent two weeks of their annual leave helping entrepreneurs in Senegal to prosper. Volunteers went to the West African nation’s former capital, Saint-Louis, to support Read More

Finland’s Ministry of Social Affairs and Health has issued an action plan on tobacco that is said to show how the country can achieve its aim of eliminating the use of tobacco products by Read More

Imperial Tobacco has announced that it is closing its cigarette factory in Kyrgyzstan, according to a story in The Times of Central Asia quoting the press service of the Kyrgyz government. The Reemtsma Kyrgyzstan factory Read More