Category :News This Week

American Snuff Company, which is part of Reynolds American and manufactures Grizzly moist snuff, has awarded donations totaling a quarter of a million dollars to two nonprofit outdoor conservation organizations. Through the Grizzly Outdoor Corps Read More

A store owner who sells e-cigarettes is fighting an order from Health Canada to stop, according to a CBC News story. Ryanne Pineda, whose business at Fredericton, New Brunswick, also produces e-liquids, says he has Read More

People caught breaking no-smoking regulations in public places in Bali could find themselves on the wrong end of an IDR50 million (US$4,000) fine or a jail term of three months, according to a baldidiscovery.com Read More

Japan Tobacco Inc. said today that it was redesigning its Peace Lights Box and Peace Super Lights Box products. The company said the new design was aimed at imparting a heightened sense of luxury to Read More

Smokers in Yorkshire, England, are facing pressure to give up their habit before undergoing routine surgery, according to a story in the Yorkshire Post. The Stop Before Your Op program is being introduced in the Read More

Altria, Philip Morris USA, R.J. Reynolds and Lorillard are preparing a full-page mea culpa to run in the Sunday editions of the US’ ‘top’ 35 newspapers, as online notices for those papers’ websites and as Read More

The government of the Australian state of New South Wales is expected to ban cigarette smoking in multi-unit housing, according to an Australian Broadcasting Corp. story. The story was carried, too, in the Newcastle Herald Read More

Sri Lanka’s health minister, Maithripala Sirisena, has said he is prepared to face up to any challenge that the fight against smoking might throw up, according to a story in the Daily News. Addressing Read More

Anti-tobacco proposals have been put forward in the UAE that would impose “plain packaging” on cigarettes and double the price of tobacco products within two years, according to a Gulf News story quoting a health Read More

A three-month anti-tobacco campaign on Bangladeshi television is seeking to create awareness about the adverse impacts of tobacco and motivate people to abide by the provisions of the country’s new tobacco control act, according Read More