Category :News This Week

An anti-smoking activist and community-health specialist has urged the Hong Kong government to ban tobacco smoking in cars and homes so as to protect children’s health, according to a story by Emily Tsang for Read More

Smoking tobacco will be banned outside of designated areas in Taiwan’s national parks and scenic areas from the start of next month, according to a story on Focus Taiwan News Channel. Not all parks Read More

Figures published last week by France’s national drugs watchdog showed that the number of cigarettes sold in France fell by 7.6 percent last year, according to a Naharnet story. Sales of hand-rolling tobacco continued to Read More

Excessive rain has hit Cuba’s leaf tobacco harvest, with the important growing districts of San Juan y Martínez and San Luis being severely affected, according to a story by Ivet González for Read More

More than 1,000 retailers have gone behind the scenes at one of Imperial Tobacco’s factories during the past 18 months as part of a trade partner initiative in France. The latest event took place at the Read More

All tobacco companies operating in Zimbabwe’s Hurungwe district will be required from the next tobacco growing season to sign with Hurungwe Rural District Council (HRDC) a memorandum of understanding (MOU) regulating their operations, according Read More

A leaf tobacco processing factory has been the subject of protests in the Saptibari village of the Aditmari subdistrict of Bangladesh because of its proximity to educational institutions, according to a story in The Daily Read More

A top official of Vietnam’s tobacco industry has proposed boosting the country’s revenue by urgently cracking down on cigarette smuggling rather than by increasing tobacco-products consumption tax, according to a VietnamPlus story. Vu Read More

Logic Technology said yesterday that it had strengthened its No. 2 position in respect of e-cigarette volume sales, according to a Wells Fargo Securities report on Nielsen’s C-Track [U.S. convenience store] Database. Logic said Read More

Reynolds American Inc. is rumoured to be considering making a bid for Lorillard, according to research notes issued by Wells Fargo Securities and based on a story yesterday in The Financial Times. Neither Reynolds nor Read More