Category :News This Week

Time Warner, the parent company of the Warner Bros. movie studio, has become the first company to agree to hold a shareholder vote on smoking in movies, according to a press note issued by the Read More

Most members of the Danish parliament are against the imposition of standardized cigarette packs, according to a story in Dansk Handelsblad. A survey conducted by the newspaper among the parties that make up the Danish Read More

Most of Indonesia’s smokers are young and from the ‘lower middle class’, according to a story in the Jakarta Post quoting the Antara News Agency. Hasbullah Thabrani, who was described as an ‘expert in Read More

Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Health on Friday urged Muslim smokers to take advantage of the holy, fasting month of Ramadan to quit smoking, according to an Arab News story. A ministry spokesman, Khalid Al-Mirghalani, Read More

Following Australia’s success in reducing demand for cigarettes, the time has come for targeting supply, according to a story by Becky Freeman at medicalxpress.com. In her story, first published in The Conversation, Freeman Read More

Zimbabwe’s flue-cured tobacco growers are expected to deliver more than the previously-expected 165 million kg this season, according to a story in The Herald yesterday. However, prices, as expected, have remained below those of last Read More

Three multinational tobacco companies are threatening to sue the Hungarian government if it does not launch a tender for a 20-year contract for the supply of tobacco products to retailers, according to a Reuters story Read More