Category :News This Week

Brazil recorded a 50 per cent decrease in smoking prevalence between 1989 and 2010, according to the findings of a new study published in PLOS Medicine. The study was conducted by researchers fromGeorgetownLombardiComprehensiveCancerCenterand the Brazilian National Cancer Institute. Read More

Anti-tobacco campaigners in Thailand have urged the government to speed up the implementation of tougher tobacco regulations, according to a story in the Bangkok Post. In April, the government added elements of the World Health Read More

Vintage, rare and mature cigars worth an estimated £250,000 are expected to be sold during C.Gars Ltd’s seventh auction at Boisdale CanaryWharf, London, on November 26. In announcing the auction, which will include also cigar-related Read More

Author and speaker Nick ‘Gunny Pop’ Popaditch – ‘The Cigar Marine’ – is launching a line of cigars with a portion of the proceeds going to support the Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund and honor his fellow Read More

The Altria Group is due to host a webcast of its business presentation at the annual Morgan Stanley Global Consumer & Retail Conference inNew York Citystarting about 09.10 hours Eastern Time on November 13. The webcast, which Read More

Philip Morris International is due to host a live audio webcast at www.pmi.com of a presentation by, and a question-and-answer session with, chairman and CEO, Louis Camilleri, at the Morgan Stanley Global Consumer &Read More

EU plans to put graphic health warnings on cigarette packs and ban vending machines are opposed by the Dutch health minister, Edith Schippers, according to an Expatica.com story quoting an RTL news report. The Read More

The Malaysian government is considering whether it should make tobacco manufacturers print ‘Smoking is hazardous to health’ on every cigarette they produce, according to a story in The Star. This and other new provisions are Read More

India’s Health Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad, has promised to establish a committee to examine the concerns expressed by members of the Smokeless Tobacco Association about the gutkha prohibitions introduced in 14 states, according to a Read More

The Association of Restaurant Owners in Lebanon has threatened to hold a sit-in protest tomorrow to pressure the government to relax the smoking ban in enclosed public places, according to a Daily Star story relayed Read More