Category :News This Week

British American Tobacco’s Brazilian affiliate Souza Cruz plans to extend to 2020 its partnership with Cuba’s state-owned Tabacuba in the joint-venture cigarette maker Brascuba, according to a SABI Business News story relayed by the Read More

Universal Corporation is due to webcast a conference call on May 19 following the release of its results for fiscal year 2015 after market close on that date. The live webcast will be available on a listen-only Read More

South Korea’s top court has ruled that the country’s tobacco business legislation is constitutional, saying that there is no proof that smoking always causes lung cancer, according to a story in The Korea Read More

Israel’s Supreme Court has upheld an appeal of a lower-court ruling and made it possible for people exposed to tobacco smoke in public places to file class-action suits, according to a story in the Read More

Food security, public health and the environment are under threat in parts of Bangladesh because of a rise in tobacco cultivation, according to a story in The Financial Express. Khiating Soye, chairman of Rajbila’s Read More

Five electronic cigarette companies operating in Hong Kong have formed the Asian Vape Association to oppose the government’s plan to ban electronic-cigarette sales, according to a story in the South China Morning Post relayed Read More

Health experts are warning that Shisha smoking is so socially acceptable in Bahrain that its dangers are being ignored, according to a Gulf Daily News story. The News said that the dangers of using traditional Read More

In a commentary in the Signal Tribune, California, a health expert has hit out against US tobacco policy that insists on smokers quitting tobacco and nicotine altogether. Dr. Brad Rodu is a professor of medicine Read More

China announced on Friday that it would raise the wholesale consumption tax on cigarettes from Sunday, according to a Xinhua News Agency story citing a statement jointly issued by the Ministry of Finance (MOF) and Read More

The government of Bangladesh has been told that it should increase tobacco taxes in order to achieve its revenue target for the next financial year, according to a story in The Daily Star. “We have Read More