Sewtec will launch compact versions of its existing large-scale track-and-trace systems to ensure all tobacco manufacturers can comply with the revised EU Tobacco Products Directive. Read More
You don’t have to like smoking to see there is a problem with the EU Commission giving taxpayers’ money to NGOs that use that money to lobby the Commission.Read More
Having harvested the low-hanging consumers, the suppliers of heat-not-burn products in Japan are having to cut prices to maintain consumer interest.Read More
Imposing excise tax on electronic cigarettes to curb tobacco consumption will work only if e-cigarettes are defined as – or deemed to be – tobacco products.Read More
The fight over standardized tobacco-product packaging, which at best has a marginal impact on consumption, seems to be a distraction. There should be a united focus on reduced-risk products.Read More
Because California law prohibits the sale of e-cigarettes to those under 21, San Francisco's proposed ban on flavored e-liquids would impact only adults trying to quit smoking.Read More
In Australia, where tobacco prices are astronomically high, the fall in the number of smokers has been tiny. Perhaps it should try nicotine-delivering electronic-cigarettes.Read More
Even if, as seems likely, sin is evenly distributed through society, 'sin taxes' impact the financially poor disproportionately.Read More
China's State Tobacco Monopoly Administration seems to make a valid point when it says that a mature society should make provision for ‘civilized smoking’.Read More
Flavors vote tomorrow
If a proposed ban on flavored tobacco products is passed tomorrow; it will certainly have far-reaching negative consequences. They won't be 'unintended' however. Read More
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