The Norwegian Heart and Lung Patient Organization, LHL, has called for Norway to become tobacco-smoke free, according to a story in The Nordic Page. LHL’s secretary general, Frode Jahren, was quoted as saying that Read More
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June 19, 2013
The prevalence of tobacco smoking in the US fell from 18.9 per cent in 2011 to 18.0 per cent in 2012, according to estimates based on data from the 2012 National Health Interview Survey and previous surveys. Smoking fell from 24.7 Read More
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June 18, 2013
Alliance One International’s sales and other operating revenues during the year to the end of March, at $2,243.8 million, were increased by 4.3 per cent on those of the previous year. Tobacco sales were up by $94.1 Read More
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June 18, 2013
SKYCIG, a UK electronic cigarette provider, has set up a website to help vapers write to their MEPs (members of the European Parliament) and oppose proposed changes to the EU’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD). Read More
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June 18, 2013
Philip Morris International expects a decision to be made this month or next on a challenge by Uruguay as to whether an international tribunal set to hear bilateral investment treaty complaints has jurisdiction over the Read More
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June 18, 2013
Imperial Tobacco employees in the US are helping to raise funds to support families in Oklahoma affected by last month’s devastating tornado. And Commonwealth – Altadis has pledged to match the donations made by its Read More
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June 17, 2013
Police in Rawalpindi have arrested 15 shisha smokers around the city following a crackdown on smoking in public places, according to a story in the Daily Times. And it seemed that the 15, if found guilty, would Read More
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June 17, 2013
Some police officers in the Indian city of Bengaluru are being ‘over-zealous’ in enforcing a ban on tobacco smoking in public places, according to a story in the Deccan Chronicle. The paper said there had Read More
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June 17, 2013
The owner of a beauty salon in Kenmore, Washington state, US, is to serve time in federal prison for selling contraband cigarettes sourced from Vietnam, according to an Associated Press story. It wasn’t stated Read More
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June 17, 2013
If consumption levels of banned products reflect seizures of those products, then consumption of electronic cigarettes in Singapore is increasing despite the ban there, according to a story by Poon Chian Hui for the Straits Read More
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