Category :News This Week

Duty-free tobacco sales were given a reprieve yesterday with the adoption of an international illicit trade protocol that did not include a ban on such sales, according to a story by Nicole Mezzasalma for DFNI. Read More

Lorillard said yesterday that its board of directors had declared a three-for-one split of Lorillard common stock. The stock split, it added, would be effected through a 200 per cent stock dividend. “Since becoming an independent Read More

Delegates to the World Health Organization’s tobacco meeting inSeoulthis month have been warned that they risk causing harm by not taking account of the benefits offered by some cigarette alternatives. According to a TMA Read More

A German member of the European Parliament has said that Tonio Borg,Malta’s foreign minister, should not be allowed to join the college of European commissioners, according to a story by Toby Vogel for Read More

Philip Morris International has welcomed the passing by the World Health Organization of the first international protocol aimed at fighting the illicit trade in tobacco. “With sales estimated at more than 600 billion cigarettes a year – Read More

Imperial TobaccoCanadahas congratulated the government of Manitoba for its leadership in addressing the supply of untaxed and unregulated tobacco sold by the First Nations-owned Chundee Smoke Shop. “Manitobais leading the way on this important and Read More

Members of the European Parliament are refusing to take no for an answer from the European Commission chief on access to a report on John Dalli, who resigned last month from his position as European Read More

The latest Australian Bureau of Statistics’ national health survey shows that smokers make up 45.8 per cent of Tasmania’s men aged 25-34, according to a Mercury story relayed by the TMA. This figure compares with Read More

Responding to a Channel 4 (UK) documentary, Unreported World, British American Tobacco said on Friday that children were not, and would never be, its audience. The company said that it, too, had been shocked to see Read More

The Altria Group has been ranked number 30 amongAmerica’s most community-minded companies in The Civic 50 survey – the first comprehensive ranking of S&P (Standard & Poor’s) 500 corporations that best use their time, talent Read More