Category :News This Week

The pocketsize spittoon maker FLASR, which is based at Alabama, Georgia, said yesterday that its product would, from next month, be made available in 400 stores across the US through Product and Service Distribution Technologies (PSDT). Read More

The Canadian Lung Association said on Wednesday that it ‘salutes’ Nova Scotia for becoming the first jurisdiction in North America to ban menthol flavoured tobacco, according to a Marketwired story. The day before, the Nova Read More

Cigarette smokers who drop their butts on the ground in Taipei are risking fines that have been increased threefold and more from today, according to a story in the Taipei Times. Previously, offenders faced a Read More

Pa Socheatvong, the municipal governor of Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, has thrown his support behind a campaign to ban tobacco smoking in the city’s enclosed public places, and he has made a start Read More

Hillary Clinton is opposed to a critical piece of the Obama administration’s proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which would give corporations the right to sue sovereign nations over laws or regulations that could potentially curb Read More

American Snuff Company (ASC), a subsidiary of Reynolds American Inc. (RAI), yesterday announced the donation of 10 acres of industrial land and buildings to Robertson County, Tennessee. “American Snuff has a long history with the Springfield Read More

AR Packaging Group AB has acquired the European tobacco, chocolate confectionery and general packaging operations from MeadWestvaco Corp. The transaction was completed today and the business will be consolidated as from May 1. The acquired operation Read More

Japan Tobacco Inc. said today that it had entered into an agreement to acquire Logic Technology Development, one of the leading US electronic cigarette ‘brands’. JT described Logic, which was founded in 2010, as selling a Read More

Japan Tobacco Inc’s domestic cigarette volume sales during the three months to the end of March, at 25.5 billion, were 16.2 percent down on those of the three months to the end of March 2014, 30.4 billion. JT Read More