Category :News This Week

People carrying more than the permitted amount of cigarettes and alcohol when they fly into Taiwan no longer face the possibility of a prison sentence, according to a story in the Taiwanese edition of The Read More

Duty-paid cigarette sales in Spain during the first 11 months of 2012, at 2.482 billion packs, were down by 10.1 per cent on those of the first eleven months of 2011, according to a Cinco Días story quoting data Read More

New measures introduced by Spainto clamp down on ‘low-level cigarette smuggling’ from Gibraltarhave come into force, according to a story in the Gibraltar Chronicle. The measures cut existing tobacco allowances for frontier workers and residents Read More

A ‘death clock’ displaying the number of people said by an anti-tobacco campaigning organization to be dying in Bangladesh of tobacco related diseases has gone up in Dhaka’s Bijoy Sharani area. The first of Read More

Award for Imperial Tobacco’s training programs in Slovenia Imperial Tobacco has received an award for the quality and level of training provided for its people inSlovenia. The Top 10 Award recognises those companies that take Read More

US District Court Judge, Richard Leon, has allowed a lawsuit seeking an injunction by R.J. Reynolds and Lorillard Tobacco to proceed against the Food and Drug Administration’s Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee (TPSAC), Read More

Australia’s largest tobacco retail franchise says it does not believe that it is in breach of Victorian state tobacco laws by giving away free cigarette-pack covers, according to a story by Rachel Wells for Read More

Counterfeit cigarettes are floodingBangladesh’s market and contributing to the country’s missing its VAT collection targets, according to a story in The Financial Express. The government had set itself the target of collecting an Read More

A ban on tobacco smoking in enclosed public places in Chile will be expanded following the passage of a bill in the Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday night, according to a story by Laina Roberts Read More

About 85 per cent of the people polled in a recent survey said they supported the inclusion of warning images on cigarette packs inChina, according to a story by Wang Qingyun for the China Daily. But Read More