Category :News This Week

The authorities in Beijing, China, are asking citizens to vote on what would be a suitable hand gesture to indicate to people that they should desist from smoking, according to a China Daily story. Most Read More

A US federal appeals court voted 8-5 on Monday to allow an EU lawsuit to proceed against RJR Nabisco its affiliates and successors that alleges RJ Reynolds violated the US Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Read More

The US Food and Drug Administration’s Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee has concluded that Swedish Match North America’s (SMNA) General snus should not be allowed to carry Modified Risk Tobacco Product (MRTP) warning Read More

Cigarette sales in Japan during the 2014 fiscal year that ended on March 31 dropped to their lowest level since such statistics were first compiled for fiscal 1990, according to a story in The Japan News citing an Read More

As of Thursday, Zimbabwe’s tobacco growers had sold 25.7 million kg of flue-cured for US$67.4 million, according to a New Zimbabwe story. At the same stage of last season, they had sold 28.7 million kg for Read More

Estonia’s Tax and Customs Authority is banning the retailing of ‘raw tobacco’, according to an Esmerk story. The raw tobacco has reportedly been sold online, in kiosks and at markets in 1 kg packages not Read More

Tobacco companies are advertising at shops across Bangladesh even though it is a punishable offence to do so, according to a story in the Daily Star quoting anti-tobacco campaigners speaking at a seminar yesterday. In Read More

Reynolds American Inc. is due to host a conference call and webcast following the release of its first-quarter 2015 financial results before the market opens on April 17. The conference call and webcast, which will start at 09.00 Read More

Malawi’s President, Peter Mutharika, has assured the country’s tobacco growers that his government will closely monitor the minimum prices set for the 2015 tobacco marketing season. The president made his promise on Wednesday during Read More

Cambodia’s National Assembly on Wednesday unanimously passed a draft law on tobacco control that, among other provisions, will require manufacturers to include on cigarette packs graphic warnings occupying at least 50 percent of the surface Read More