Category :News This Week

The requirement that a death’s-head symbol has to appear on all cigarette packs sold in Bahrain could cost Bahrain Duty Free (BDF) 20 per cent of its profit this year, according to a Gulf Daily Read More

Japan Tobacco Inc’s domestic cigarette sales volume during February, at 8.6 billion, was down by 3.2 per cent on its February 2012 volume, 8.9 billion, which itself was increased by 0.3 per cent on that of February 2011, according to Read More

Imperial Tobacco’s business in Poland has been named one of the country’s best employers for the third year in a row. The Top Employers Certificate is awarded to those organisations that demonstrate best Read More

Electronic cigarettes can help wean some smokers off traditional cigarettes and stop them relapsing, according to researchers at the Department of Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, US. The researchers conclude that Read More

Tobacco manufacturers seem to have evaded the ban on misleading descriptors that convey reduced health risk messages, according to researchers at the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Center for Global Tobacco Control, Harvard School Read More

US tobacco manufacturers are due to receive huge credits in respect of their 10-year dispute over Master Settlement Agreement payments. Philip Morris USA said yesterday that the arbitration panel in the pending Non-Participating Manufacturer (NPM) Read More

The board of directors of Philip Morris International yesterday declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.85 per common share, payable on April 12 to shareholders of record as of March 28. The ex-dividend date is March 26.Read More

The Edelmann packaging group said yesterday that its 2012 turnover, at €233 million, was up slightly on that of 2011. The group said that growth was being driven by high order levels from outside its base in Germany. Read More

A suggestion that the US Food and Drug Administration should require ‘nicotine content’ to be below addictive levels might reduce the number of addicted smokers in the long term, but it would be detrimental to Read More