Category :News This Week

Health warnings are more effective when they suggest that cigarette consumption harms smokers and others, than when they suggest only that they harm smokers. This is the conclusion of a pro-bono study that was initiated Read More

The sale of unauthorized flue-cured tobacco will be allowed at auction floors in India, where currently leaf is being sold in Andhra Pradesh, according to a story in the Hindu, relayed by the TMA. This Read More

British American Tobacco Malaysia has urged the public not to spread further a false cigarette price list that has turned up on social media, according to a story in The Star. In a statement, the Read More

The former UK health minister Paul Burstow has called on the government to impose a levy on tobacco manufacturers and use the funds raised on research aimed at cutting smoking rates in areas where tobacco Read More

A parliamentary private member’s bill put forward in Tasmania, Australia, which would ban from 2018 the sale of tobacco products to people born after 2000, has been sent for scrutiny by a committee after doubts were Read More

A US public health expert is aiming to identify the worst e-cigarette lie, and competition is fierce. But while this exercise has about it an air of levity; the selection criteria indicate the seriousness behind Read More

Alliance One International said yesterday that it was notified by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Monday that its common stock was not in compliance with the NYSE’s continued listing standard that requires Read More

Following a competitive tender, British American Tobacco has appointed KPMG as its new external auditors for 2015 onwards. PricewaterhouseCoopers, which had been the company’s auditors since it listed on the London Stock Exchange in September 1998, Read More

California public health officials yesterday launched an ‘information campaign’ that they hope will erode the growing popularity of electronic cigarettes, according to a story in the San Bernadino County Sun. Dr. Karen Smith, director of Read More

The Netherlands is to ban the sale of electronic cigarettes to people under the age of 18, according to a Dutch News story. The ban was announced yesterday by junior health minister Martin van Rijn, who Read More