Category :News This Week

About 85,360 farmers have so far registered for Zimbabwe’s 2014 tobacco selling season, up from about 65,000 at the same stage of last year, according to a story in The Standard quoting the Tobacco Industry Marketing Board. Read More

Lorillard is due to host a results webcast and conference call from 09.00 hours on February 12 following the release of its fourth quarter and full year 2013 results. The conference call for analysts and investors will be Read More

The First Global Forum on Nicotine is due to be held in Warsaw, Poland, on June 27-28. Professor Gerry Stimson said that his company, KAC, which will stage the forum, believed the timing was right Read More

Tobacco growers in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka have been asked to comply with flue-cured crop targets so as to ensure good prices at auction, according to a story in the latest Read More

The smokers’ group Forest has come out strongly against the UK Labour Party’s plans to ban smoking in cars with children. “Legislation is completely unnecessary,” said Forest director, Simon Clark. “Most adult smokers accept Read More

The Washington-based US Chamber of Commerce is lobbying against proposals by Ireland’s Department of Health to standardize the design of cigarette packs, according to a story by Tom Lyons for the Irish Times. In Read More

Reynolds American Inc. is due to host a conference call and webcast at 09.00 hours Eastern Time on February 11 following the release of its fourth-quarter and full-year 2013 financial results before the market opens. Daniel M. Delen, Read More

The decision by South Korea’s National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) to sue cigarette manufacturers operating in the country has been described by a tobacco industry group as a misguided attempt to solve budget issues, Read More

The Jordanian government is coming under fire for planning to enforce fully, by the end of this year, an anti-tobacco law passed in 2008, according to an Associated Press report published in The Tampa Tribune, Florida, Read More

Ethiopia has passed an anti-tobacco law that includes a ban on ‘smoking in public’, according to a Diretube.com story. The country’s house of representatives has issued a proclamation that would see the imposition Read More