Category :News This Week

South Korea’s smoking incidence, which has been trending down since 2009, fell by 0.2 of a percentage point to 24.0 percent last year, according to a story in The Korea Herald, quoting a survey by the Ministry Read More

The Environmental Protection and Energy Efficiency Fund of Croatia has said it will invest 6.5 million kuna (US$926,200) to install about 200 solar tobacco dryers in the county of Virovitica-Podravina, according to a Croatian Newsmonitor story relayed Read More

Nu Mark, which as part of Altria develops innovative tobacco products, said yesterday that it had launched Vaper Rights (VaperRights.com), ‘a website for adult vapers who are interested in information and advocacy on public Read More

The undersecretary of the Hong Kong Food and Health Bureau, Sophia Chan Siu-chee, has said that the bureau expects later this year to propose that cigarette health warnings, which are said currently to cover about 50 Read More

Electronic cigarettes are having a small positive space created for them within the UK’s general election debate. Recently, Totally Wicked announced that it had launched a number of General Election E-liquids ahead of the Read More

In the event that a decision by the Indian government to increase the size of tobacco-product health warnings leads to a challenge by tobacco companies, the government will be able to seek technical and financial Read More

Totally Wicked, which describes itself as Britain’s biggest independent e-cigarette and e-liquid company, has released a number of General Election E-liquids ahead of UK elections to be held on May 7. The promotion is said Read More

Sales of licit tobacco products in New Zealand fell by 23 percent between 2009 and 2013 according to a story in The New Zealand Herald quoting researchers from Action on Smoking and Health (Ash). And while sales of Read More

The French National Assembly on April 3 passed the first reading of draft legislation to require cigarette manufacturers to sell their products in standardized packaging, according to a Radio France Internationale story relayed by the TMA. Read More

Health authorities in South Korea have concluded that vaping electronic cigarettes is not safe, according to a story in The Korea Times. The National Evidence-based Healthcare Collaborating Agency, which is under the wing of the Read More