Despite an 80 percent cigarette-tax rise at the start of 2015 and the introduction of graphic health warnings in 2016, smoking among adult men remains high in South Korea.Read More
All of JTI Leaf Malawi’s tobacco growers have been able to pay off their financing loans taken out in support of the 2016-17 production season. Read More
Swiss rail is to run a comparative experiment by introducing trial tobacco-smoking bans on some stations, smoking zones on one station, and smoking lounges on another. Read More
The Eliminating Child Labour in Tobacco Growing Foundation has reacted with indignation to allegations that its work ‘aims to keep farmers dependent on aid from the tobacco industry…’Read More
A group of UK parliamentarians believe misinformation is preventing a significant number of smokers from making the decision to switch to vaping.Read More
A Japanese company is giving non-smokers extra paid holidays. But should smokers be rewarded too? After all, without them, the non-smokers wouldn’t get their extra leave. Read More
Tobacco farmers in Indonesia are calling for protection from imports. Why wouldn’t they? What has globalization done for them?Read More
Have the people of the UK decided that enough is enough when it comes to persecuting smokers? Seventy six percent of them think that banning smoking at home is a step too far.Read More
It seems that nothing has been done in the UAE to tackle underage smoking during the past 13-15 years, a period during which experimentation has remained about the same.Read More
Japan's tobacco growers are due next year to be paid a per-kg price for leaf that will be about one percent lower than the price they were paid in 2014.Read More
