Category :News This Week

The European Commission is due to adopt its proposals to revise the EU’s tobacco products directive on Wednesday. According to the Commission’s Top News, the proposed legislation comprises new and strengthened rules on Read More

Proposed revisions for the EU’s tobacco products directive will include a prohibition on slim cigarettes, a requirement for graphic health warnings, a ban on ‘taste-enhancing’ additives and a ban on descriptors such as ‘light’, Read More

Sweden’s Trade Minister, Ewa Björling, has said the EU faces “all out war” with Sweden if revisions to the tobacco products directive due out on Wednesday threaten Swedish snus, according to a story Read More

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