New research has indicated that snus, along with other factors, could be making the difference between life and death. And yet this product is banned in the EU outside Sweden.Read More
The incidence of smoking in Mexico increased marginally between 2011 and 2016, while the average number of cigarettes consumed per smoker per day rose by about 12 percent.Read More
Meetings between government employees in Tamil Nadu and representatives of the tobacco industry are to be more closely scrutinized in the future.Read More
A report in The Korea Herald seems to suggest that smokers won’t be safe from the prying eyes of the ‘managing authorities’, even while in the bath.Read More
An anti-tobacco advocate in the Philippines has warned committee members who support an ‘insufficient’ five pesos rise in tobacco taxes that they will have blood on their hands if the rise is adopted.Read More
Swedish Match’s CEO Lars Dahlgren says the company is fortunate to have a strong replacement for its departing CFO.Read More
The more that governments denigrate tobacco consumption, the more they are able to use the industry as a tax milch cow, even to the detriment of impoverished farmers and farm laborers.Read More
Without any hint of irony, a heading on a story in Indonesia said: Finance Minister looks at tobacco taxes to solve gaps in health funding.Read More
ASH US, which is again venting its rage against tobacco manufacturers, seems to have no words of solace for people who enjoy smoking. Smokers are presented as victims and death statistics.Read More
An increasing number of people are smoking cigarettes daily in the Czech Republic, in part because they are being presented with a distorted picture of less-risky alternatives.Read More
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