A solution to the knotty problem of quitting smoking and avoiding weight gain has emerged from the field of crafts – specifically knitting. Knitting could also help to reduce tension when prisons go smoke free, though Read More
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January 25, 2016
Thousands more jobs may be lost within the Indonesian tobacco industry as manufacturers increasingly turn from manual production methods to cheaper machine systems, according to a story in The Jakarta Post. Widyastuti Soerojo of the Read More
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January 25, 2016
Imperial Tobacco’s Altadis plans to close its last cigarette factory in Spain, according to an Agence France Presse story. The group’s cigarette sales in Spain have slumped by more than 45 percent in volume Read More
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January 25, 2016
Customs officers in Bahrain have foiled an attempt to smuggle electronic cigarettes into the country, according to a note from the Kingdom Of Bahrain Information Affairs Authority. Customs Chief Shaikh Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Khalifa Read More
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January 25, 2016
A number of electronic cigarette sites that have been breaking the law by selling electronic cigarettes into the Punjab, India, have been told to quit their activities, according to a story on Punjabnewsexpress.com. On Read More
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January 25, 2016
Five private television channels in Bangladesh have been served with a legal notice asking them to stop showing smoking scenes in television dramas and other programs by January 31, according to a story in The Daily Read More
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January 22, 2016
Cambodia’s ministries of health and information are working together to put some teeth into last year’s law restricting the advertisement of tobacco products to points of sale, according to a story in The Read More
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In a letter sent to the Russian deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, the tobacco industry lobbying group Tabakprom and the Council for the Development of the Tobacco Industry have come out against the tobacco product Read More
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Germany is to ban e-liquids containing menthol and many other flavours when it transposes the EU’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), according to a story by Barnaby Page for ECigIntelligence. Germany’s list of prohibited Read More
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January 22, 2016
Japan Tobacco Inc said today that it had applied to the Minister of Finance for approval to increase the retail prices of all of its 35 Mevius-brand cigarettes and those of six former third-class cigarettes, which Read More
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