Category :News This Week

Cigarette sales fell by 3.4 percent in France during 2012, the most significant decline since 2005, according to a story in Le Figaro. The decrease was thought to be due to increases in prices that were imposed in Read More

A member of the European Parliament has asked the EU Commission whether it has any plans to help if the revisions to its Tobacco Products Directive negatively affect Polish tobacco farmers. Michał Tomasz Kamiński, Read More

The value of tobacco sales in Spain increased by 5.6 percent to €1.778 billion during the first two months of this year, according to an Expanśion story quoting data from the tobacco market authority. But volume Read More

England’s  tobacco products display ban helped smokers quit, according to a new study. One in four young people who gave up smoking last year said the ban on displaying tobacco products in large shops Read More

A new study links pregnant women’s exposure to secondhand smoke and behavioral problems in their kids. Researchers, led by Jianghong Liu at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, studied more than 600 mother/child Read More

A virus typically associated with tobacco, but also known to be present in spinach, tomatoes, petunias and other vegetables and household plants, may help protect people from Parkinson’s disease, according to a story in Read More

Since November and the passing of Measure 8, the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota, U.S., has areas within its outdoor parks where smoking is banned—a prohibition that park board commissioner Molly Soeby wants Read More

London’s spring might be a tad overdue, but a warm front is on the horizon—at least for cigar lovers. Many of the world’s wealthiest smokers are expected to flock to Britain’s Read More