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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

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