Category :News This Week

Imperial Tobacco has been recognized by the Top Employers Institute as one of the best companies to work for in Italy. “Their comprehensive analysis highlighted our ‘exceptional employee conditions,’ especially the way our HR leadership Read More

British American Tobacco Philippines (BATP) is expecting to enjoy a strong double-digit growth in its operations this year, largely due to robust sales of its low-cost brand, Pall Mall, and the more expensive, menthol-capsule-filtered Lucky Read More

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has no plans to ratify the global convention on tobacco control and will not rush to do so, according to a story in the Jakarta Post quoting a senior presidential Read More

The smokers’ group Forest has launched a new website to fight plans to introduce plain tobacco packaging in Ireland. Plain Packs Plain Stupid, which has a sludge-brown background to highlight the dull packaging proposed by Read More

British American Tobacco Kenya (BATK) has estimated that it will this year process nearly 41 percent more leaf tobacco at its plant at Thika, Kenya, than it processed there last year, according to a story in Read More

The Korea Military Academy plans to lift a decades-old ban on drinking, smoking and marrying to reflect social changes, according to a story in The Korea Times. The army has prohibited cadets from drinking, smoking Read More

The U.S.-based Citizens’ Commission to Protect the Truth is urging Lorillard, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco and Philip Morris USA immediately to stop marketing and selling menthol cigarettes, according to a PR Newswire story. Read More

Some state lawmakers in Washington, USA, want to levy a 75 percent tax on e-cigarettes, according to a story by Annaliese Davis for the Bellingham Herald. Sponsored by Seattle Rep. Reuven Carlyle, a Democrat, H.B. 2795 Read More

The ousting of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich could have an impact on the battle against standardized tobacco packaging, according to a Reuters story. In March 2012, Ukraine launched a case at the World Trade Organization to Read More

The sixth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control is due to meet in Moscow on Oct. 13-18, according to Convention News. The Read More