The trouble with public consultations on tobacco issues is that non-users are in the majority and they are happy to impose on users the tyranny of the majority.Read More
In Japan, it is still possible for a cigarette manufacturer to issue special-edition packs; and what could be more uplifting in the Japanese spring than the sight of cherry blossom?Read More
In part, the EU defends its tobacco-products tracking-and-tracing system by citing obligations to a World Health Organization protocol that has received very little support. Read More
The battle over India’s 85 percent tobacco-products health-warnings, which has been fought on and off since 2014, is due to be resumed in March.Read More
The threat of bigger graphic health warnings in South Korea is not causing too much concern among cigarette manufacturers. Smokers might feel otherwise.Read More
It will be interesting to see what will be depicted if, as suggested, South Korea requires ‘stronger pictorial warnings’ on heat-not-burn products.Read More
Molins PLC is considering changing its name to Mpac Group PLC, a name ‘aligned to its new strategic direction’. Read More
A poll on cigarette-pack graphic-warnings was weighted towards non-smokers. Even so, the adults in favor of increasing the size of such warnings only just outnumbered those against.Read More
India’s small-scale retailers believe that their bigger rivals are working with anti-tobacco activists to take their customers.Read More
The passage into law of India’s regulations requiring 85-percent tobacco-packaging warnings was convoluted, and now these warnings have been struck down by a court.Read More
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