The US Food and Drug Administration is looking to discourage electronic-cigarette use among ‘kids’, who include teens, youth, middle- and high-school students and children.Read More
Zimbabwe’s flue-cured tobacco growers are this year ahead by three US cents per kg on where they were last season.Read More
If a ‘fact’ is repeated often enough, that fact becomes part of the background on which we judge whatever it is the fact relates to, which is fine if the fact is a fact.Read More
The low risk profile associated with the use of electronic cigarettes is not reflected in the life insurance premiums charged to people who use these devices.Read More
Sri Lanka has banned chewing tobacco, including traditional chewing mixtures with added tobacco, because, it says, these products are dangerous. But it has not moved against cigarettes. Read More
It sounds very plausible: increase the production of export tobacco to improve your country’s economy. But is there a market for more tobacco, and what of the environmental consequences?Read More
UK travellers are this summer being warned about the consequences of becoming involved in the illegal trade in tobacco products.Read More
So far, the average per-kg price paid to farmers in Zimbabwe for their flue-cured tobacco is running two US cents ahead of what it was at the same stage of last season’s sales.Read More
A study has found that, in brief, increases in cigarette prices can make the financially less-well-off even poorer. Read More
A story from Indonesia about two students having been expelled for smoking contrasts with one from Australia earlier this week where a school head puts education first.Read More
