Category :News This Week

The second part of Russia’s anti-tobacco law came into force yesterday, extending public-places tobacco smoking bans to include, for instance, restaurants, hotels and railway platforms, according to an ITAR-TASS story. Ashtrays and hookas are Read More

Japan’s Finance Ministry is expected to change the regulations governing the opening of new cigarette outlets in a bid to avoid “excessive competition” among retailers at a time of falling sales, according to a Read More

A village in India’s Nagaland state has been declared the country’s first “tobacco-free village,” according to a story in the Hindustan Times. The declaration was made by principal secretary R Benchilo Thong on Read More

Essentra Filter Products has launched a plugwrap material that disperses in water at least three times faster than standard materials. The new plugwrap, which enables the manufacture of more environmentally friendly filters, can be used Read More

Fifty-three specialists in nicotine science and public health policy have written to the World Health Organization expressing their concern that the strategy of tobacco harm reduction seems to have been overlooked or even marginalized in Read More

A new website has been launched with the aim of raising awareness of the black market cigarette trade in the U.S. Sponsored by RAI Services Co., a subsidiary of Reynolds American Inc., the new Read More

Gamucci was crowned the U.K.’s “Best Electronic Cigarette” brand at the recent Consumer Choice Awards 2014, organized by Brand Weekly. The innovative awards are based on the views of consumers who nominate and vote Read More

Japan Tobacco Inc. is due to hold its ordinary general meeting of shareholders starting at 10 a.m. on June 24 at the Tokyo Prince Hotel.Read More

British American Tobacco is calling on the World Health Organization and governments around the world to adopt a policy of tobacco harm reduction as a more progressive approach to tobacco regulation, according to a note Read More

Ahead of the U.K. government’s consultation on standardized packaging regulations, the smokers’ group Forest is urging retailers and consumers to write to the prime minister, David Cameron, declaring their opposition to the policy. Read More