Category :News This Week

Efforts are being made in Andhra Pradesh, India, to have 50 villages declared tobacco-free by the end of May. After the village of Pongalipaka in the Madugula division of the Visakhapatnam district of Andhra hit the Read More

Lorillard’s domestic shipment volumes during the 12 months to the end of December 2012, at 39,490,890,000, were down by 1.4 per cent on those of the previous 12 months. Including shipments to Puerto Rico and US Possessions, shipments were Read More

Philip Morris International is due to host a live audio webcast of a presentation and question-and-answer session by its CFO, Jacek Olczak, at the Consumer Analyst Group of New   York (CAGNY) Conference. The entire session Read More

Imperial Tobacco’s operation in Poland has been handed a prestigious award by the nation’s leading business organisation. The ‘Diamond to the Gold Statuette of the Business Leader’ was awarded in recognition of Imperial’Read More

R.J Reynolds Tobacco’s US domestic cigarette volume during the year to the end of December, at 68.9 billion, was down by 5.6 per cent on that of 2011. Pall Mall volume fell by 0.6 per cent to 21.9 Read More

Russia’s lower house of parliament, the State Duma, yesterday approved in its third and final reading a bill banning tobacco smoking in public places, according to an RT TV/TV Novosti story. The ban, Read More

Opponents of the standardized packaging of tobacco on Monday launched an online campaign urging people in the UK to lobby their members of parliament about the issue. Hands Off Our Packs, the campaign set up Read More

The Philippines is putting further pressure on Thailand to comply fully and in a timely manner with a World Trade Organization ruling in respect of a cigarette excise tax dispute between the two countries, according Read More

UK-based Innovia Films has agreed to buy the Reserve Bank of Australia’s 50 per cent share in Securency International Pty Ltd, which, since 1998, has been owned by Innovia and the bank in a 50/50 joint venture. Read More