Category :News This Week

Kenya’s Attorney General has hit out at an attempt by British American Tobacco Kenya to stop the implementation of the Tobacco Control Regulations 2014, which is due to come into force on June 6, according to Read More

The European Commission decided last week to recommend that the EU should join an international agreement it believes is set one day to become the key multilateral instrument in the fight against the illegal trade Read More

Swedish Match’s (SM) sales during the three months to the end of March, at SEK3,368 million, were up by 12 percent on those of the three months to the end of March 2014, SEK3,014 million. Operating Read More

British American Tobacco is losing as much as 10 percent of its South African output due to power cuts, according to a Reuters story. South Africa is said to be in the middle of its worst Read More

A professor of public health at the University of Indonesia’s School of Public Health, Hasbullah Thabrany, has warned that Indonesia has become a main target for the tobacco industry, according to a story in Read More

A farm labor advocacy group was due yesterday to conduct a street protest for the eighth consecutive year outside the headquarters of Reynolds American Inc, according to a story by Richard Craver for the Winston-Salem Read More

Reynolds American Inc. reported that shareholders had re-elected five directors at the company’s annual meeting yesterday; approved, on an advisory basis, the compensation of named executive officers; ratified the appointment of KPMG LLP as Read More

Imperial Tobacco Canada has come out in support of the ‘intention behind the amendments to the Quebec Tobacco Act’, but believes certain measures will not achieve the government’s public health objectives and, in some Read More

The Russian cigarette market could decline by 8-12 percent to 289-277 billion this year, primarily driven by an increase in taxes and the weakening of the domestic economy, according to an ITAR-TASS story relayed by Read More

The provincial government of Manitoba, Canada, is not going to increase taxes on electronic cigarettes even though smokers switching to these products is said to comprise the major reason why a C$1-per-carton excise increase Read More