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British American Tobacco has been commended by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) for its approach to the disclosure of climate change information. The company is one of 35 members of the FTSE 350 that feature in the Read More

An initiative backed by Imperial Tobacco is helping children in tobacco-growing areas of Malawi to attend school. In a note posted on its website, Imperial said that the ‘Eliminating Child Labour in Tobacco-growing (ECLT) Foundation’ Read More

Philip Morris International is due to host a live audio webcast at www.pmi.com starting at 09.00 hours Eastern Time on October 18 to discuss its 2012 third-quarter results, which will be issued about 07.00 hours on the Read More

The Altria Group is due to host a live audio webcast at www.altria.com beginning at 09.00 hours Eastern Time on October 25 to discuss its 2012 third-quarter business results. The results will have been issued as Read More

The Australian federal government seems to be concerned that cigarette smuggling will increase with the imposition from December 1 of its requirement that tobacco products are sold in ‘plain’, ugly packs. According to an Australian Associated Read More

The Andhra Pradesh MP, Rayapati Sambasiva Rao, has written to the Indian Health Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad, objecting to the implementation of guidelines drawn up by the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Read More

Yunnan province’s Luoping county says it is speeding up the consolidation of its tobacco-production farmland, according to a Qujing Tobacco Monopoly Administration story relayed by Tobacco China Online The consolidation is aimed at establishing Read More

A legal challenge by the tobacco industry to a ban on cigarette sales from vending machines in Scotland has been rejected by senior judges, according to a story in the Daily Record and Sunday Mail. Read More

Philip Morris International has issued its first report on its Agricultural Labor Practices (ALP) program, which was launched in May last year. The ALP program seeks progressively to eliminate child labor and other labor abuses Read More

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co says that teachers, parents and community youth groups have a free youth tobacco prevention program at their fingertips with the online enhancement of its evidence-based program, Right Decisions Right Now: Read More