Category :News This Week

New York’s highest-in-the-nation cigarette taxes are failing to drive down smoking rates, according to a story by Patrick Basham and John Luik in the New York Post quoting a new study funded by the Read More

The Bulgarian Health Minister, Desislava Atanasova, has refused to lift the smoking ban in enclosed public places imposed in June, according to a Novinite story. “This is a very European step that we made and Read More

Tobacco farmers from 14 countries are due to arrive in Budapestnext week for the 33rd Congress of their European association, UNITAB, at which the main theme will be: Retain the jobs inEurope. The Congress, which has Read More

The Hong Konggovernment has been urged to make bar managers liable for prosecution if people smoke inside their premises, according to a story in the Hong Kong Standard. Since 2007, most public places in Hong Kong Read More

Japan Tobacco International said yesterday that Vladislav Mihov had been appointed country manager forBulgaria, according to a Novinite story quoting a JTI press note. Mihov’s predecessor, Charles Cunningham-Reid, is to head consumer and trade Read More

Reynolds American Inc is due to webcast a conference call at 09.00 hours Eastern Time on October 23 following the release of its third-quarter 2012 financial results. The conference call, which will be available online on a listen-only Read More

Sales of loose tobacco in Iceland were 34 per cent higher during the first nine months of this year than they were during January-September 2011, according to an Iceland Review story quoting data from the State Alcohol Read More

Philip Morris Korea (PMK) yesterday opened its revamped cigarette manufacturing facility at Yangsan, South Gyeongsang province, according to a Korea Herald story relayed by the TMA. The revamped plant now has an annual production capacity Read More

Representatives ofBulgaria’s restaurant and hotel sector have written an open letter to Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, asking for an easing of the country’s indoor public-places tobacco smoking ban, according to a Novinite story. Read More

KT&G has said it is due to launch a 1 mg version of its coffee-scented Raison Cafe cigarette on October 10, according to a story in The Korea Herald. The brand was launched in 6 mg Read More