Category :News This Week

Ceylon Tobacco Company’s (CTC) sales in Sri Lanka fell by 11 percent last year, according to a Colombo Page story quoting a CTC financial statement. At the same time, its government contributions during the 12 months Read More

A New Zealand health expert has said that the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) would effectively prevent governments from enacting health policies for fear of being sued, according to an Independent Newspapers story. New Zealand Read More

Japan Tobacco Inc’s domestic cigarette sales volume during January, at 8.3 billion, was down by 6.1 percent on that of January 2014, 8.8 billion, according to preliminary figures issued by the company today. The January 2014 figure was up Read More

A ban on tobacco smoking in cars carrying young people will be imposed in Wales on October 1, Health Minister Mark Drakeford has confirmed. According to a BBC News story, the ban, which will come in Read More

Researchers at two universities in Western Australia have developed a plastic case into which smokers can place their cigarettes but remove them only at the cost of hearing some form of quit smoking message, according Read More

Lorillard’s domestic wholesale cigarette shipment volume during the 12 months to the end of December, at 38,535,460,000, was down by 2.0 percent on that of 2013, 39,325,216,000. Including shipments to Puerto Rico and US Possessions, shipments were down by 2.3 Read More

Imperial Tobacco’s tobacco-products volume during the three months to the end of December (Imperial’s Q1), at 71.8 billion, was down by four percent on that of the three months to the end of December 2013, Read More

Pakistan’s Minister for National Health Services, Regulations and Co-ordination, Saira Afzal Tarar, said yesterday that all cigarette packs sold in the country would have to carry new graphic warnings covering 85 percent of both the Read More

Philip Morris International is due to host a live audio webcast at www.pmi.com/webcasts of a presentation by CFO Jacek Olczak at the Consumer Analyst Group of New York (CAGNY) Conference starting about 13.45 Read More

Ploom, a San Francisco, California, USA-based vapor delivery system company, has added two senior executives to its team. Timothy Danaher was named vice president of finance and Scott Dunlap was appointed chief marketing officer. Reporting Read More