Category :News This Week

South Korea’s cigarette tax revenue during the first five months of this year was up sharply on that of a year earlier, according to a Yonhap News Agency story citing government data. The increase Read More

The number of smokers in Russia fell from 35 percent last year to 34 percent now, according to an ITAR-TASS story citing the results of a poll conducted by the All-Russia Public Opinion Study Center. The poll, Read More

Anti-tobacco activities have hit what is possibly a new low with the setting up of a messaging app through which people in Beijing can report smokers who indulge their habit where smoking is banned. According Read More

All but 15 of the 302 lots were sold when C.Gars held its vintage cigar auction in London on Monday. Record prices were said to have been paid for many of the rare lots on offer, Read More

A study commissioned by the Canadian Men’s Health Foundation has found that the annual economic burdens attributable to smoking, excess weight, alcohol, and inactivity are C$13.0 billion (US$10.6 billion), C$11.9 billion (US$9.7 billion), C$7.6 Read More

Proposed bylaws banning the use of electronic cigarettes in public places in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, are “ridiculous,” councillor Andre Chabot has told the Calgary Herald. “We have become so Big Brother in what we do Read More

Beijing is calling for volunteers to help implement the city’s strict new anti-smoking laws, according to a story in the Beijing Times. Since June 1, the city has prohibited smoking in indoor public places and Read More

A tobacco (and alcohol) tax regime that was signed into law by the President of the Philippines Benigno Aquino in December 2012 is said to have cut smoking sharply while boosting government revenues, according to an Read More

More than 30 tobacco brands are advertised or promoted in areas where schools are situated, according to a story in The Jakarta Post citing a recent survey. The survey was carried out in 360 schools in five Read More