Category :News This Week

Former workers at a cigarette factory in the Bandarban area of Chittagong, Bangladesh, have threatened to step up their protests on Wednesday if production at the factory has not been resumed by then, according to Read More

Japan Tobacco Inc. said today that it would be launching Camel Black Box and Camel White Box in selected stores across Japan, excluding Okinawa Prefecture, in the middle of January. The new-to-Japan products are said Read More

A planned 8.5 per cent increase in Indonesia’s tobacco excise this month would neither push up the price of cigarettes significantly nor reduce the number of cigarette smokers in the country, according to a story Read More

Imperial Tobacco’s cigarette volume during the year to the end of September, at 292.5 billion, was down by 3.2 per cent on the volume recorded during the year to September 30, 2011: 302.1 billion. During the same period, fine-cut Read More

A petition filed by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco could represent the boldest step to date in trying to market smokeless-tobacco products in theUSas less harmful alternatives to cigarettes, according to a story by Richard Craver Read More

Japan Tobacco Inc’s domestic cigarette sales volume during November, at 9.6 billion, was down by 0.8 per cent on its November 2011 volume, 9.7 billion, which itself was increased by 40.0 per cent on that of November 2010, according to Read More

Could the latest and greatest threat to the tobacco industry come from a race to the bottom by cities and countries competing to have the lowest incidence of smoking? An opinion piece in the South Read More

British American Tobacco said yesterday that it would invest $200 million in the Philippines during the next five years, according to a story in The Manila Bulletin. The company was reported as saying that, following the Read More

Tobacco companies’ aggressive coupon marketing tactics could reduce the likelihood that current smokers will quit, according to a PRNewswire press note quoting new research published in an article in Tobacco Control. The report is said Read More

Philip Morris USA said yesterday that the Madison County Circuit Court had denied the plaintiffs’ request to reopen the Price ‘Lights’ case. “The trial court correctly recognized that the plaintiffs could not meet their burden Read More