Category :News This Week

The Estonian Ministry of Social Affairs is in favor of banning the sale of menthol cigarettes and requiring that graphic health warnings are included on cigarette packages, according to a story in the Baltic Daily. Read More

Finland’s Ministry of Social Affairs and Health would like tobacco packs to have no brand information on them at all, according to an Esmerk Finnish News story quoting an unnamed newspaper report. Such a Read More

The European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) has called for the rejection of a proposal that would reintroduce subsidies coupled to tobacco production, according to a story in Europolitics. The EU Parliament is due to vote Read More

NewCo and its Indian partner, S.B. Impex, last week officially inaugurated a leaf facility close to Guntur, Andhra Pradesh. ‘We are able to store up to four million kg and to pack hand strip Read More

Lorillard’s board of directors has approved a new share repurchase program involving up to $500 million of the company’s outstanding common stock. The program is expected to be completed this year. “Today’s announcement Read More

Japan Tobacco Inc. said today that the Minister of Finance had decided the terms of the secondary share offerings that it would be making in respect of the company’s common stock. In all, 253,261,800 shares Read More

The European Ombudsman on Wednesday launched an investigation into the resignation in October of John Dalli as European commissioner for health and consumer affairs, according to a story by Dave Keating for the European Voice. Read More

The British Prime Minister, David Cameron, said yesterday that the government had not decided whether to introduce standardized packaging for tobacco products, according to a Forest press note. A story in The Guardian on Wednesday Read More

The US Food and Drug Administration has so far issued no rulings on the approximately 3,500 tobacco-product substantial equivalence reports it has received, despite having 115 employees reviewing them, according to a story by Jacob Grier for Read More

British American Tobacco has come out against a suggestion that legislation on standardized tobacco packaging will form part of the Queen’s speech in May. “It is important to remember that these are just rumours Read More