Category :News This Week

Australia’s Health Minister, Tanya Plibersek, has ruled out allowing health funds to charge smokers more than they charge non-smokers, according to a report by Fiona Willan for ninemsn. ”The government requires all private health Read More

Filtrona Scientific Services (FSS) is inviting existing and perspective customers to take a virtual tour of its recently expanded, state-of-the-art testing laboratory. The room-by-room online tour provides viewers with a behind-the-scenes look at the FSS Read More

The board of directors of Philip Morris International yesterday increased the company’s regular quarterly dividend by 10.4 per cent to an annualized rate of $3.40 per share. The new quarterly dividend of $0.85 per share, up from $0.77 Read More

A workshop on ‘Packaging of unhealthy products’ is to be held at the European parliament inBrusselson September 19. The workshop is being organized by the Policy Department A-Economy and Science for the Committee on the Environment, Read More

Yunnanprovince’s application for an increased quota on cigarette production to boost tobacco tax and help with earthquake disaster relief has ignited public criticism inChina, according to a story by Shan Juan for The China Read More

Swedish Match (SM) is giving a new appearance to all of the variants that make up its General brand of snus so as to give them a more uniform design. In a press note posted Read More

InAustralia, young people are smoking less but the nation’s waistline is growing, according to an Associated Press story quoting a new report into health risk factors. The report, released on Tuesday by the Australian Read More

The Danish government is capitulating in the face of EU demands that it bans all forms of snus, according to a story in the Copenhagen Post. Although the sale of pouched snus is banned inDenmark, Read More

South Korea’s cigarettes are the least expensive in the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development), while the country’s smoking rate is the group’s second highest, according to a Korea Herald story Read More