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Thirty of the 50 largest cities in the US are now ‘smoke-free’, according to a HealthDay story quoting the findings of a new report. The 60 per cent of large cities that are tobacco smoke-free have laws Read More

The Canadian Cancer Society has relegated Bangladeshto 97th position among 198 countries in introducing graphic health warnings on tobacco packs, according to a story in the New Age. The society announced the ranking on Wednesday at Read More

Tobacco growers in the West Nusa Tenggara province of Indonesia say that low demand and declining prices for flue-cured are threatening their livelihoods, according to a story in The Jakarta Post. The farmers, who are Read More

Japan’s 2013 leaf tobacco crop will be grown on 9,245 ha, down by 134 ha or 1.4 per cent on that of this year. The flue-cured production area will be 5,926 ha, down by 51 ha or 0.8 per cent; the Read More

Tobacco smoking is expected to be banned in all restaurants and other public facilities in Seoul by 2020 as the city seeks to make the metropolis ‘smoke-free’, according to a story in The Korea Times. Seoulis Read More

Reynolds American Inc. says that the Reynolds American Foundation will donate $140,000 to the American Red Cross to help provide relief to victims of Hurricane Sandy, which hit the east coast of theUS at the end Read More

The international (excluding China) tobacco industry cigarette volume forecast through 2015 ranges from stable to a continued modest annual decline of up to 1.3 per cent, according to Philip Morris International’s chairman and CEO, Louis Camilleri. Read More

EU health commissioner-designate Dr. Tonio Borg, has said that his top priority as health commissioner would be to forward a revised version of the EU’s tobacco products directive for inter-service consultation in January 2013, according Read More

Bulgaria’s National Association of Tobacco Growers has threatened to declare a ‘zero year’ if buying companies don’t increase tobacco prices, according to a Novinite story relayed by the TMA. A zero year is Read More

The Dominican Republic has requested the establishment of a panel under the dispute settlement procedures of the World Trade Organization to consider a challenge toAustralia’s plain packaging measures for tobacco products, according to a Read More