Category :News This Week

David Paprocki (pictured) has joined NDC Infrared Engineering as regional sales manager for the Asia Pacific region. Paprocki will be working from NDC’s Singapore office and will be responsible for sales of NDC on-line Read More

The organizers of the TFWA World Exhibition are offering a free app, which they say will improve participants’ experience of the exhibition. In all, 470 exhibitors have confirmed their participation at the event, which will be Read More

Indonesia has made a formal request to the World Trade Organization for consultations on Australia’s imposition of standardized tobacco packaging regulations, according to stories by Agence France Presse and Reuters. Such a request is Read More

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have awarded up to $53 million “to fund tobacco-related research in fiscal year 2013 to create 14 Tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science (TCORS),” Read More

The American Thoracic Society (ATS) has accused the U.S. Food and Drug Administration of failing to take action on certain “dangerous tobacco products” such as “e-cigarettes and cigars.” “The American Thoracic Society demands [the] Read More

It is time to seize the moment and encourage tobacco users to move down the risk “continuum” from the most harmful to less harmful products, according to Murray S. Kessler, chairman, president and CEO of Read More

Tobacco lobbyists were preparing to wage a major battle against the imposition in Ireland of standardized tobacco packaging, according to a Times of London story quoting Health Minister James Reilly. Reilly was said to have Read More

The Dubai municipality has issued a comprehensive guide to help businesses to ensure they are in compliance with new anti-tobacco laws due to come into force on Jan. 21, according to a story in the Khaleej Read More

Research into electronic cigarettes initiated by Australia’s previous Labor government seems not to have had such a progressive aim as was reported earlier this week. Writing for the Sun-Herald group of newspapers, Eamonn Duff Read More