Category :News This Week

Text and video messages designed to help people quit smoking can be effective when relayed to the cellphones of quitters. According to a Reuters story based on aNew Zealand study, those attempting to quit and Read More

KT&G, which launched Tonino Lamborghini cigarettes on the South Korean market in April, has said it will export 300,000 packs of these premium brand products toHong Kong, according to a Korea Herald story relayed Read More

About 80 countries from the developing world could find themselves unable to afford to send representatives to future meetings of the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), according to a story in Read More

Moon Chang-jin, president of the Korea Health Promotion Foundation, has been elected president of the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control’s Conference of the Parties (CoP), according to a Korea Herald Read More

The US Department of Health and Human Services has launched a website aimed at offering the ‘best and most up-to-date tobacco-related information from across its agencies’. BeTobaccoFree.gov is said to provide information on tobacco, Read More

The European Commission has been asked to provide the European Parliament with all drafts of the proposed new tobacco products directive. In written questions, the Dutch MEP, Kartika Tamara Liotard, asked, ‘Can the Commission – upholding Read More

The Japanese government has decided to delay selling part of its 50 per cent stake in Japan Tobacco Inc, according to Japan Daily Press and Agence France Presse stories. The decision was taken in the light Read More

The European Commission seems to have missed an opportunity to reassure EU oriental tobacco growers about whether or not they will be allowed to continue to grow oriental tobacco. In September, the Bulgarian Ministry of Read More

India is said to be closing in on a crop insurance plan for flue-cured tobacco growers, according to a Business Standard story relayed by the TMA. The Minister of State for Commerce and Industry, D. Read More

Philip Morris has committed to buy tobacco from the Spanish region of Extremadura, according to a Cinco Días story quoting the president of the local government, Jose Antonio Monago. Philip Morris would sign with Read More