Vapers are due to take to the streets of Brussels to protest proposals that could emasculate electronic cigarettes sold within the EU. Many people from across the tobacco divide believe that electronic cigarettes pose little Read More
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July 3, 2013
Fiji’s Ministry of Health is calling on members of the public to help make Fiji a smoke-free country, according to a story at The Fiji Times Online. The head of the Tobacco Control Unit, Read More
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Philip Morris International today welcomed the decision by a World Bank arbitration tribunal to hear a claim that Uruguay violated multiple provisions of its bilateral investment treaty (BIT) with Switzerland. “In order to attract foreign Read More
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July 3, 2013
Japan Tobacco Inc. said today that it was expanding the distribution of Camel Black Box (10 mg tar) and Camel White Box (6 mg) in Japan. These products, which are currently on sale in more than 20 countries, Read More
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Tests on the hair of mummies from the town of San Pedro de Atacama in Chile have indicated that the people in the surrounding region had a nicotine habit spanning from at least 100 BC to Read More
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July 2, 2013
Zimbabwe’s 2013 flue-cured tobacco auction marketing season will close on July 5, according to a story in the Zimbabwe Herald quoting the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB). Final deliveries will be accepted on July 4. By Read More
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July 2, 2013
A researcher at the Centre for Tobacco Control Research at Stirling University in Scotland has incorporated into a cigarette pack a verbal health warning that is parroted every time the pack is opened, according to Read More
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July 2, 2013
Despite the anti-tobacco efforts of the World Health Organization, the Malawi government says tobacco will remain the country’s key strategic crop for years to come, according to a MaraviPost.com story. The story quoted Read More
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July 2, 2013
Tobacco control measures enacted in 41 countries between 2007 and 2010 will prevent about 7.4 million premature deaths by 2050, according to a HealthDay story quoting the results of a study published on June 30 in the Bulletin of the World Read More
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July 1, 2013
The European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee has said that some of the European Commission’s proposals aimed at revising the Tobacco Products Directive raise significant legal concerns. These concerns relate to the legal base Read More
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