Category :News This Week

The electronic cigarette company, blu eCigs, is sponsoring the Electric Lounge at the SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas, which is due to take place on March 14 -16, according to a PRNewswire press note. The Read More

Malawi tobacco growers were pleased on Monday with the opening of the 2013 tobacco marketing season as prices, buoyed by the weakening of the kwacha, looked good, according to a story by Dumbani Mzale for the Read More

Talk of price increases has done wonders for cigarette sales in South Korea. According to a story by Yoo-jin Lee and Sun-ah Kim for the Maeil Business Newspaper, sales have risen rapidly at the country’Read More

People living in townhouses, condominiums and other attached units would be prohibited from tobacco smoking indoors under a ban proposed by a California state lawmaker, according to a story in the San Francisco Chronicle. The Read More

Two lung specialists have launched a website listing the names and jobs of people it says work for the tobacco industry lobby in the Netherlands, according to a DutchNews.nl story. The list includes health Read More

An initiative funded by Imperial Tobacco’s local business has seen the clearance of more than 120 tonnes of rubbish from a neighbourhood in the capital of Gabon. A lack of municipal waste collections together with Read More

Philip Morris International is due to host a live audio webcast at www.pmi.com of its presentation to the Consumer Analyst Group of Europe (CAGE) conference in London, UK. The presentation will start about 10.15 Read More

Wenche Rolfsen will be put forward by the nominating committee of Swedish Match for election as a new member of the company’s board. The election will take place during the annual general meeting on Read More

The UK based electronic cigarette company, E-Lites, has overturned an attempt by a European government to have electronic cigarettes classified as medical devices. The Administrative Court in Estonia last week found in favour of Zandera Read More

Charles Hamshaw-Thomas has been appointment director of legal and corporate affairs at E-Lites, the UK-based electronic cigarette company. Hamshaw-Thomas has substantial senior executive experience as general counsel and corporate affairs director for some of the Read More