New Zealand’s ban on electronic cigarettes with nicotine has come under fire from a visiting health professional from Australia, where a similar ban is in place. According to a story by Josh Fagan for Read More
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March 11, 2015
Nepal’s Minister for Health and Population Khaga Raj Adhikari said yesterday that the government had no plans to reverse a directive requiring cigarette manufacturers to increase the size of pack health warnings from 75 percent Read More
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The number of Spaniards who said they started using cannabis in 2013 outnumbered those who said they took up smoking cigarettes, according to an Agence France Presse story citing a government study released last week. About 169,000 Read More
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Ireland’s President Michael D. Higgins has signed into law the country’s standardized tobacco packaging legislation. According to an RTE story relayed by the TMA, cigarette manufacturers will be required, from May 2016, to produce Read More
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March 11, 2015
Philip Morris International is due to host a live audio webcast at www.pmi.com/webcasts of a presentation and question-and-answer session by CFO Jacek Olczak at the Consumer Analyst Group of Europe (CAGE) conference Read More
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March 11, 2015
Philip Morris International’s board of directors today declared a regular quarterly dividend of $1.00 per common share, payable on April 10 to shareholders of record as of March 26. The ex-dividend date is March 24. Meanwhile, PMI announced Read More
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March 10, 2015
The state health department of Maharashtra, India, is considering a proposal that would require anyone caught using or spitting smokeless tobacco products in public places to work as a government sweeper for a day, reports Read More
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March 10, 2015
Pax Labs, a San Francisco, California, USA-based company that develops alternatives to traditional cigarettes, today announced the launch of its most innovative product yet: the Pax 2. Geared toward consumers on the go, the product is 25 Read More
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March 10, 2015
Greece could ‘lose’ more than €1 billion a year in tax revenue to the sale of illicit cigarettes by 2019, according to a story in the International Business Times citing Euromonitor figures. Illicit cigarettes were said to Read More
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March 10, 2015
Without disclosing the names of the companies, the government of Malawi said it had licensed three leaf dealers from China, Egypt and South Africa to participate in the 2015 marketing season that started on March 4, according Read More
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