Deliveries of tobacco products to retailers in Australia rose slightly last year for the first time in at least five years, despite the introduction of standardized packaging aimed at deterring smokers from indulging their habit, Read More
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March 24, 2014
The proportion of smokers among women living in Shanghai, China, has risen significantly in recent years, according to a story on Ecns.cn. Delegates at the Shanghai International Lung Cancer Forum were told on the Read More
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March 21, 2014
Fifty-seven percent of cigarettes sold in the U.S. are smuggled from states with lower tobacco taxes than the state in which they are sold, according to a story by Mary Beth Griggs for the Read More
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March 21, 2014
Tobacco trading centers have begun buying tobacco from farmers in the Virginia-growing areas of the Philippines’ Ilocos provinces, according to a story by the Philippine Information Agency quoting the National Tobacco Administration (NTA). And because Read More
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March 21, 2014
A businessman from Jiangsu Province, China, has been deported from the U.K. after trying to take 35 undeclared cartons of cigarettes into the country, according to a Global Times story quoting a press note put Read More
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March 21, 2014
Lawmakers in Colorado, USA, have overturned a proposal that would have raised the age at which people could buy tobacco from 18 to 21, according to a CBS4 report. Colorado is the third state this year to Read More
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March 21, 2014
Imperial Tobacco’s business in Spain has put its name to a charter that is in line with Imperial’s commitment to supporting diversity. Altadis is amongst a number of leading Spanish companies to have Read More
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March 20, 2014
The director of the U.K. smokers’ group Forest, Simon Clark, has criticized yesterday’s budget increase on tobacco duty, which was 2 percent above the rate of inflation. “Recent history shows that increasing tobacco duty Read More
Staff Writer
March 20, 2014
Qatar’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has arrested nine “Asians” involved in the production, packing and sale of “sweika,” an illicit product based on chewable tobacco, according to a story in the Gulf Times. About 6,000 Read More
Staff Writer
March 20, 2014
Five shopkeepers in Malaysia were recently fined for selling illicit cigarettes, according to a story in The Star. The fines seemed to be set at more than 10 times the “value” of the illicit cigarettes in Read More
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