The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has recommended changes to the warnings and directions for use of over-the-counter nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) products, allowing more people to use these products effectively for smoking cessation, Read More
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April 2, 2013
Rhodia Acetow has been renamed Solvay Acetow. The change comes in the wake of Solvay’s acquisition of Rhodia in September 2011. The name Rhodia will continue to be used for certain products, including Rhodia Read More
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April 2, 2013
Sweden’s exemption from the EU ban on snus is not as watertight as it might once have seemed. The health and consumer affairs commissioner, Tonio Borg, recently told the European Parliament that the Swedish Read More
Staff Writer
April 2, 2013
Exporters in Tanzania have welcomed the participation of China in the market for tobacco, according to a story by Sebastian Mrindoko for the China Daily newspaper. China would provide a reliable market for Tanzania’s Read More
Staff Writer
April 2, 2013
The e-cigarette company, Vapor Corp, announced that net sales for the year 2012 had reached a record $21.4 million, 33.6 percent up on its net sales during 2011. The company’s cost of goods sold, at $13.2 million, was 96.4 percent Read More
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April 2, 2013
ITC said that it had been ranked No. 1 for the second consecutive year in the CSR category of the recently published Nielsen Corporate Image Monitor 2012-13. “ITC’s top position in the ratings in the Read More
Staff Writer
March 28, 2013
Australian retailers who worried that standardized packaging of tobacco products would negatively affect their bottom lines had good reason to be concerned, according to a Convenience Store story quoting new research. ‘The Impact of Plain Read More
Staff Writer
March 28, 2013
Campaigners have criticised the Scottish government’s support for standardised packaging of tobacco. Support for the measure is included in a new tobacco-control strategy that includes also provision for “education” programs for young people and Read More
Staff Writer
March 28, 2013
While it is illegal to smoke in parks in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, U.S., it will soon be legal to carry unconcealed firearms there, according to a story in the Doylestown (PA) The Intelligencer. The town Read More
Staff Writer
March 28, 2013
The Danish government has put forward a bill to ban the sale of loose snuff in Denmark, according to an Esmerk Danish News story. But the bill is not expected to be passed because a Read More
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