UK retailers are concerned that an EU tobacco-products tracking-and-tracing system could prove burdensome.Read More
Thirty-two projects have been awarded a total of about US$28 million as part of a Philip Morris International initiative to help in the fight against illegal trade and related crimes.Read More
British American Tobacco is to share with government agencies in Papua New Guinea intelligence on illegal trade.Read More
Malaysia’s Ministry of Health has moved quickly to deny rumors that the country is about to see the return of cigarettes packs containing fewer than 20 cigarettes.Read More
The EU Commission is working on tobacco-product traceability and security systems, and has no plans to get into the distribution business.Read More
Is it rational to consider applying excise duty to unmanufactured tobacco in an attempt to reduce the illegal trade in tobacco, whose primary cause seems to be tax-driven, high-prices?Read More
In taking away tobacco retail licenses from those outlets found selling cigarettes to minors, Singapore’s laws punish both retailers and customers who are adult smokers.Read More
Will a tobacco tracking and tracing system introduce ‘a mechanism of very little … public health and budgetary benefit which runs counter to all business rationale’?Read More
Australia’s hostility to electronic cigarettes could be one reason why the country’s punitive smoking-prevention policies are running out of steam. Read More
The arrest in Australia of a Customs officer and a former Customs employee have raised questions about how the influence of a family was allowed to permeate Customs for many years.Read More
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