Category :News This Week

So far this sales season, Zimbabwe’s average flue-cured price, at $3.18 per kg, is more than 14 percent down on that of the same period of last year, $3.71, according to a story in News Day. No Read More

Universal Corporation yesterday reported net income for the fiscal year ended March 31, at $149.0 million or $5.25 per diluted share, increased on that of the previous year’s $132.8 million or $4.66 per diluted share. Segment operating income, which Read More

More than 1.2 million counterfeit Rizla booklets have been seized in China following an initiative led by Imperial Tobacco’s Group Security team. The illicit products (pictured) were captured during a series of raids by the Read More

The Muscat Governorate plans to extend a ban on smoking tobacco in public places, according to a story in the Times of Oman. The governorate is a region of Oman that includes the country’s Read More

The consumption in the U.K. of tobacco products that have not had U.K. duty paid on them is said to be on the rise again, according to a story by Guy Bentley for Read More

More hotels in Malaysia should be declared smoke-free in a bid to reduce the amount of secondhand smoke in public places, according to a story in The Star quoting the Health Ministry’s deputy director-general, Read More

High-voltage e-cigarettes might expose users to increased levels of toxic chemicals, including formaldehyde and acetaldehyde, according to research led by Maciej Goniewicz, Ph.D., Pharm.D., a researcher in the Department of Health Behavior at Read More

U.S.-based White Cloud Electronic Cigarettes has launched ClearDraw2, “a radical reinvention of the traditional e-cigarette cartridge.” According to a press note issued through PRNewswire, the proprietary new design “eliminates the industry-standard cotton filler Read More

Sampoerna said on Friday that it planned to restructure its hand-rolled kretek cigarette (SKT) manufacturing operations in Indonesia, a development that would “impact” about 4,900 employees. “The company has decided to discontinue the production in its Read More

About 100,000 signatures have been collected on a petition calling for Russian lawmakers to backpedal on the country’s smoking ban, according to a RT TV/TV Novosti report. An anti-tobacco law was approved in February 2013 Read More