New Zealand’s associate health minister, Tariana Turia, is aiming to cut, perhaps to zero, the number of duty-free cigarettes people may bring into the country, according to a story by Lynley Bilby for The Read More
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While R.J. Reynolds Tobacco is to keep offering for sale its dissolvable tobacco products, they are not going to be made available outside of the limited markets to which they are currently confined, according Read More
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Japan Tobacco Inc. said today that none of the domestic flue-cured tobacco it had tested in prepurchase tests for radioactive materials had exceeded its standard value (radioactive cesium: 100Bq/kg). The company has been conducting Read More
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August 5, 2013
Australian smokers should be forced to carry a “smartcard license” with which to buy cigarettes so health authorities can track their behavior and better target quit messages to them, according to a story by Julia Read More
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Gallup researchers have found that only 12 percent of smokers have never tried to quit the habit, according to a blog in the Huffington Post. Forty percent have tried to quit once or twice in their Read More
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August 5, 2013
A U.S. doctor in Beckley, West Virginia, believes that he has developed a product for helping people quit or cut down on smoking, chewing tobacco, alcohol and food, according to a story by Lisa Read More
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August 5, 2013
Oil palm cultivation in Nigeria’s Cross River State is being boosted by British American Tobacco Nigeria (BATN), which has so far invested more than N10 million in the state’s oil palm revival program, Read More
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The electronic cigarette company Gamucci has been appointed category leader by WHSmith as part of the U.K. retailer’s plans to expand its range of electronic cigarettes. The partnership will see a gradual roll-out Read More
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Smokers, who normally comprise one of the most submissive large minority groups of all, are starting to voice their opposition to the designation of no-smoking streets and areas in Seoul, South Korea, according to a Read More
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August 2, 2013
The Vietnamese government has decided to establish under the Ministry of Health a fund to be used for the control and prevention of tobacco harm, according to a story in Vietnam Plus. The fund, which Read More
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