Category :News This Week

A Moscow Region court has ruled that smoking areas at Sheremetyevo Airport should be closed, according to a Russian Legal Information Agency story quoting an announcement yesterday by the prosecutor general’s office (PGO). The Read More

Alliance One International said yesterday that it would hold a conference call starting at 17.00 hours Eastern Time on June 5 to report its financial results for the fiscal year ended March 31. The call will be available Read More

Iggesund Paperboard believes that its Swedish mill is fast approaching the company’s demanding environmental goals. For a while in mid-April, the Iggesund Mill was able to operate solely on bioenergy while also supplying almost Read More

Tyton BioEnergy Systems, based at Danville, Virginia, US, said on Monday that it was reopening the former Clean Burn Fuels bio-refinery in Raeford, North Carolina, as part of its strategy to convert tobacco crops into Read More

Sales of hand-rolled clove cigarettes in Indonesia are losing their edge as consumers shift to machine-made products – a situation that could see further job losses in the industry, according to a story in The Jakarta Read More

A company based in Clarence, New York, USA, has signed a deal under which its tobacco products will be made by a Polish cigarette manufacturer for distribution within the EU, according to a story by Read More

About 30 percent of Bulgarians, comprising more than 2.1 million people, are daily tobacco smokers, according to a Focus English News story quoting the World Health Organization report Global Tobacco Epidemic, which was released on Saturday. There Read More

France is preparing to place e-cigarette use on the same legal footing as tobacco smoking with draft legislation that aims to ban vaping in public places, according to a story by Paris-based Anne Penketh for Read More

The Delhi government plans to introduce a scheme whereby no tobacco or related products would be sold on the last day of each month, according to a story in The Times of India. The story Read More

Shops selling illicit tobacco in the Mearns, Scotland, are being hounded out of town by a new council recruit. According to a story by Martin Dalziel, Dixie the sniffer dog was used by the Aberdeenshire Read More