A sharp decline in Scotland in the number of people using a National Health Service (NHS) support program to help them quit smoking has been linked to the rise in popularity of electronic cigarettes, according Read More
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August 7, 2015
An empty pack survey in Lithuania conducted by the National Association of Tobacco Producers has found that 19.7 percent of the packs collected were smuggled into the country from other markets, according to a Baltic News Read More
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August 6, 2015
Market prices paid in US dollars for suppliers’ green tobacco have again been generally lower this year, according to Alliance One International’s president and CEO, Pieter Sikkel. Announcing the company’s results for its Read More
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August 6, 2015
Twenty four percent of Egyptians are smokers and 12 percent of the country’s smokers are under 15 years of age, according to a story in the Cairo Post quoting the Health Ministry Undersecretary Amr Kandil. The Read More
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August 6, 2015
Turkish police have seized 3.5 million packs of cigarettes hidden on trucks arriving from Georgia, according to an Agence France Presse story. Five trucks loaded with the cigarettes were seized at the Black Sea border post Read More
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August 6, 2015
Japan Tobacco Inc. said today that Japan’s flue-cured tobacco had been tested and found to be free of radioactive contamination. The Company has been conducting a number of tests for radioactive materials at each Read More
Staff Writer
August 5, 2015
A constitutional court in Austria has overturned a planned amendment to tobacco laws that would have limited the sale of most electronic cigarettes to officially licensed tobacco shops, according to a Reuters story published by Read More
Staff Writer
August 5, 2015
A survey of more than 125,000 15-year-olds in England conducted by the Health and Social Care Information Centre has found that 24 percent have tried smoking at least once, according to a story in The Guardian relayed Read More
Staff Writer
August 5, 2015
Asylum, an installation by the artist Nils Olof Hedenskog has gone on display at the Industrial museum – the Old Iron Mill – of Iggesund, Sweden. As was described here on June 9 (Exploring visions of security through Read More
Staff Writer
August 5, 2015
Universal Corporation’s board of directors yesterday declared a quarterly dividend of $0.52 per common share, payable on November 9 to shareholders of record at the close of business on October 13. In addition, the board declared a Read More
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