Category :News This Week

A law has been introduced into the Utah legislature that would tax electronic cigarette refills, according to a story by Rachel Lowry for the Deseret News. Originally, the bill called for ‘e-cigarettes, candy-like dissolvable tobacco Read More

The price of a pack of cigarettes in Taiwan could be increased to at least NT$100 if the tobacco surcharge is raised to NT$40, as has been suggested, according to a story by Joy Lee Read More

Iggesund Paperboard, manufacturer of Invercote, is inviting designers from around the world to participate in a unique learning experience. “We tried this for the first time in 2012 and the appreciation and enthusiasm we got from Read More

The Korea Tobacco Association (KTA), a civic group that advocates smokers’ rights, has come out strongly against a government plan to raise cigarette taxes to secure funding for President Park Geun-hye’s welfare pledges, according Read More

Texas state senator, Carlos Uresti, is calling for the legal smoking age to be raised from 18 to 21, according to a report by Karen Grace for KVUE. Uresti says that more than 503,000 people now under the Read More

The first 12 days of Zimbabwe’s flue-cured sales season saw what a Newsday story referred to as a marginal increase in volumes to 8.9 million kg, but a five per cent drop in the value of Read More

Pfizer has agreed to settle the majority of lawsuits alleging its smoking cessation drug, Chantix, caused suicide and injuries, according to a Thomson Reuters story quoting the company’s annual filing to the Securities and Read More

Imperial Tobacco’s sales force in Greece has won a national Sales Force of the Year award for the second consecutive year. The Sales Excellence Awards run by the National Greek Sales Institute (NGSI) acknowledge Read More

Two provisions have been dropped from the final draft of an anti-tobacco law in Bangladesh following lobbying from tobacco companies, according to a story in The Daily Star. One of the provisions that have been Read More