Category :News This Week

Cancer researchers in Tampa, Florida, USA, have created an online survey to learn more about why smokers choose e-cigarettes, according to a Tampa Bay Online story. The Moffitt Cancer Center researchers, in collaboration with those Read More

CTBAT International Ltd., a Hong Kong-incorporated joint investment of subsidiaries of China National Tobacco Corp. and British American Tobacco, “recently” started “official business operations,” according to a note posted on BAT’s website. The joint Read More

Papastratos’ leaf warehouse at Agrinio, Greece, is to be transformed into an oriental leaf logistics hub for Europe, according to a joint announcement by Philip Morris International and its affiliate, Papastratos Cigarette Manufacturing. The facility, Read More

The EU’s proposed new Tobacco Products Directive could threaten as much as 70 percent of the snus now sold in Sweden, the only EU country allowed to sell this product, according to a story in Read More

Lorillard’s chairman, president and CEO, Murray S. Kessler, and its CFO, David H. Taylor, are due to participate in the Barclays Back-to-School Consumer Conference in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, from 1:30 p.m. to 2:10 p.m. Read More

Quote of the day, week … year: “Yep, it’s gonna kill him one of these days.” This was a comment apparently made by Bill McClain about his father, Levie Russell McClain, of Madison County, Georgia, Read More

Forest has launched a campaign to promote its No Thank EU initiative, with full-page notices being placed in this week’s issues of the New Statesman (circulation 25,000), The Spectator (63,000) and The Week (194,000). The group, which Read More

Molins’ Tobacco Machinery division sales during the six months to the end of June, at £18.0 million, were increased by 22 percent on those of the six months to the end of June 2012. At the same time, Read More

Hungary’s government is planning to ban tobacco sales in large retail spaces, according to an All Hungary Media Group report quoting a Magyar Hirlap story citing an unnamed government source. Under the proposal, current Read More

The Gallaher Group subsidiary of Japan Tobacco International (JTI) made misleading claims about standardized tobacco packaging, according to a Cancer Research UK (CRUK) statement quoting a ruling by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). CRUK said Read More