Category :News This Week

Anti-smoking activists in Hungary seem set on launching a petition aimed at having a ban imposed on tobacco smoking in public places, according to a story by the All Hungary Media Group. This follows the Read More

Payne is launching a Facebook campaign to find out what people think about packs that can be re-closed and re-sealed. The company says that previous research has suggested that a third of consumers would pay Read More

Bulgarian tobacco producers are planning to stage large-scale demonstrations in the week beginning July 8 to protest at the country’s failure to secure EU funding for the industry during the next multiyear budgetary period. The Read More

The price of electronic cigarettes in Italy could be set to rise sharply as the Italian government considers imposing a tax on these devices, according to a story in The Local quoting a La Stampa Read More

Switzerland is behind the rest of Europe in the fight to crack down on smoking, according to a worldradio.ch story. The story quotes the latest World Health Organization report analyzing the performance of its Read More

In a bid to quit smoking, a man in Turkey’s Kütahya province has taken to wearing a locked wire cage on his head, according to a Hurriyet story. The shape of the cage Read More

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

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

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