Category :News This Week

Imperial Tobacco is taking a different path to its multinational competitors as the industry searches for the vaping technology with the potential to replace tobacco smoking, according to a story by Martinne Geller. Imperial is Read More

Imperial Tobacco’s total tobacco volume during the six months to the end of March, at 138.2 billion stick equivalents, was down by one percent on that of the six months to the end of March 2014. Read More

BAT Kenya’s managing director Chris Burrell said yesterday that no company would be able to comply with new tobacco packaging regulations scheduled to take effect on June 1, according to a Kenya Broadcasting Corporation story Read More

A study published by Tobacco Control provides evidence that the introduction of standardized tobacco packaging in Australia has not increased significantly the consumption of illicit tobacco products. The study, which was carried out by researchers Read More

Philip Morris International is due to host a live audio webcast – at ww.pmi.com/webcasts – of the company’s remarks and question-and-answer session by CEO André Calantzopoulos and CFO Jacek Olczak at the Goldman Read More

A record level of illicit tobacco consumption last year has caused the Australian government to suffer an estimated tax ‘loss’ of $1.35 billion, according to a story by Roman Kennedy for The Australian, citing a report Read More

The World Health Organization has urged India’s Ministry of Health to go ahead with an earlier decision to require that health warnings cover 85 percent of the surface area of tobacco product packaging, according to Read More

Indonesia’s cigarette manufacturers are concerned that the government aims this year to raise tobacco excise a second time, according to a story in The Jakarta Post. In its revised 2015 budget, the government has indicated Read More

Eleven riverside parks along the Han River are due to be designated tobacco-smoke-free zones as early as July, according to a story in The Korea Times quoting a Seoul Metropolitan government announcement. Smoking bans at Read More

Imperial Tobacco says that it is helping to improve the livelihoods of disabled women in Laos by supporting a vocational training project near its factory in Vientiane. According to a note posted on the Imperial Read More