Malaysia’s Health Minister, Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai, has said that the tar nicotine and carbon monoxide deliveries of cigarettes sold in Malaysia would be lowered in September 2013 and then reduced again a year Read More
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December 10, 2012
The NewCo Group said on Friday that Raza Ullah Khan had recently joined its global team as country manager in Pakistan. Khan has worked in the tobacco business for more than 35 years. NewCo said that Read More
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December 7, 2012
Ethiopia’s National Tobacco Enterprise (NTE) is trying to obtain funding for the purchase of a new cigarette-making machine to produce 20,000 cigarettes a minute, according to a story by Mahlet Mesfin for the Addis Fortune. Read More
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December 7, 2012
Swedish Match has attacked reported European plans to further legislate on snus as an indirect attempt to ban the product, according to a Reuters story quoting the newspaper Dagens Nyheter. The newspaper quoted what it Read More
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December 7, 2012
Ohio is one of four US states that have budgeted no funds for tobacco prevention programs this year, according to a Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (CTFK) press note issued through PRNewswire. ‘This is the third Read More
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December 7, 2012
British American Tobacco Chile has been fined US$1.7 million for anti-competitive practices, according to a story by Emily Green for the Santiago Times. In addition, Chile’s Supreme Court has imposed further restrictions on the Read More
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December 7, 2012
Iggesund Paperboard’s Black Box Project has broken yet new ground with the formation of a website through which the contents of the latest box can be traded. For almost two years, Iggesund Paperboard has Read More
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December 6, 2012
US states have spent less on tobacco prevention during the past two years than in any period since the national tobacco settlement in 1998, despite record high revenues from the settlement and tobacco taxes, according to Read More
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December 6, 2012
Officials in California have tapped reserves for payments on two series of state tobacco bonds due to the state’s receiving ‘insufficient’ tobacco settlement revenue, according to a Reuters story quoting notices filed with the Read More
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December 6, 2012
Birds in Mexico City are keeping their nests warm and pest-free by lining them with cigarette butts, according to a BBC Online story quoting a study by researchers at St Andrews University. The nicotine and Read More
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