Category :News This Week

Lorillard has elected Jerry W. Levin to its board of directors, effective immediately. The board is now composed of nine members, eight of whom are non-executive independent directors. Levin serves as executive chairman of the Read More

The designer of a new smoking cessation device is seeking funding through the crowd-funding platform Indiegogo, according to a press note issued through PRNewswire. Mynus is said to be a “small, sleek-looking device” that “will Read More

A tobacco control group has accused tobacco companies of having encouraged scare stories predicting that the introduction of standardized packaging for tobacco products would boost cigarette smuggling, according to a story by Jamie Doward for Read More

Thirty-three public health and medical organizations are urging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to make it a priority to regulate how cigarettes are manufactured and thereby stop tobacco industry practices that have made Read More

For every 100 cigarettes smoked in Wyoming, an additional 24 cigarettes are smuggled out, according to a story by Laura Hancock for the Billings Gazette. Most of the “smuggled” cigarettes are probably bought legally in Wyoming and Read More

The 2014 Coresta Congress is due to be held in Canada, in what the organizing committee describes as “the beautiful Old Québec City.” It will be held at the Château Frontenac on Oct. 12–16. The Read More

Swedish Match is due to hold its annual general meeting at Stockholm on May 7. The board of directors has proposed a dividend of SEK7.30 per share and May 12 as the day of record for the Read More

The Association of European Cancer Leagues has given Belgium a poor score for its anti-smoking policies, according to an Expatica.com story. In fact, Belgium scored 47 percent, which put it in 13th place on a Read More

The Philippines Senate wants to summon cigarette manufacturers and officials of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) and the Bureau of Customs (BOC) to explain why the country’s year-old “sin tax” law has failed Read More

Smokers and non-smokers alike have lodged complaints about a non-tobacco-smoking parks plan in Taiwan’s Taoyuan County, which aims to increase their number to 376 by next month, according to a story in the Taipei Times. Read More