Essentra Packaging (EP) says that its latest label, AquaSense™, is designed to help maintain and control the moisture content of make-your-own tobacco packs and thus ensure the contents stay fresh and do not dry out. Read More
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March 26, 2014
A competition to find the best images captured by photo-journalists during the past 12 months has been launched ahead of the 2014 Reemtsma Liberty Award (RLA). Now in its eighth year, the RLA recognizes journalists who work Read More
Staff Writer
March 25, 2014
Manufacturers will be required to include graphic health warnings on cigarette packs sold in Indonesia from June 24, according to a story in The Jakarta Post quoting en.tempo.co. The Indonesia pack coordinator with the Read More
Staff Writer
March 25, 2014
British American Tobacco has launched its latest sustainability summary report, “Value shared: A tobacco company for the 21st century.” The report is said to focus on harm reduction, sustainable agriculture and corporate behavior, and on Read More
Staff Writer
March 25, 2014
The government of Malaysia’s bid to contain smoking by raising taxes on tobacco products is being undermined by illicit cigarette sales, according to a story in the New Strait Times. And this is hardly Read More
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March 25, 2014
The United Arab Emirates’ Ministry of Health has rejected requests from shop owners for permission to sell e-cigarettes and electronic shisha pipes, according to a story in The National. Officials told The National’s Arabic-language Read More
Staff Writer
March 25, 2014
Drew Cheshire has been appointed president of NDC Infrared Engineering. Cheshire joins NDC from Scott Fetzer (a Berkshire Hathaway company), where he was the general manager of Meriam Process Technologies. Prior to that, Cheshire held Read More
Staff Writer
March 24, 2014
A French Senate committee has called for the government to rename its “behavioral” taxes so as to make them appear to comprise more than just a revenue grab. According to a Tax News story, the Read More
Staff Writer
March 24, 2014
Just 127 retail tobacco sales concessions were awarded in Hungary in the latest government tender, which comprised 992 in all, according to an MTI story quoting the Vilaggazdasag daily. The National Tobacco sales Non-profit company (NDN) said 567 Read More
Staff Writer
March 24, 2014
Children in a Nepalese village are making money from tobacco and liquor—but they’re not selling it, according to a story in The Himalayan Times. Just the opposite, in fact, because the children, from Read More
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