The average price paid to Zimbabwe’s growers for flue-cured tobacco during the first day of sales was less than one percent up on that of the opening-day price of the 2017 selling season.Read More
In reply to an elderly person's question about the nature of jazz, Thomas 'Fats' Waller reportedly said: “… if you don't know by now, don't mess with it”. Ditto premium cigars.Read More
In putting forward the case for smokeless tobacco, a company in New Zealand has made the point that there is a need ‘to remove the stigma that cigarettes have on tobacco’. Read More
It is unusual for countries to turn down tobacco-smoking bans. As far as politicians are concerned, bans are all kudos and little come-back; so Austria’s stance is a brave one. Read More
The US' Food and Drug Administration says that it is proceeding with the utmost caution in respect of tobacco flavors, which in FDA parlance includes nicotine-product flavors.Read More
If it achieves nothing else, China’s ‘social credit’ system should help with any overcrowding there might be on the country’s transport system.Read More
Ignorance over the relative health impacts of smoking and vaping is rife; so an awareness and education campaign in the UK is to be welcomed.Read More
As Zimbabwe's tobacco auctions open this week, growers are said to be upbeat, but the reality is that prices have hardly increased during the past 20 years – though they have fluctuated.Read More
Under the provisions of a draft bill, being caught smoking tobacco in places where such activity is banned would come at a high cost in Armenia.Read More
If you want to legislate against everything people do that causes a nuisance to others, you have to be prepared to introduce a lot of legislation.Read More
