A protocol aimed at eliminating the illegal tobacco trade seems to be where the parallel lines of the tobacco industry and tobacco control meet.Read More
A story by the Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance suggests that it has a mistaken idea of what an electronic cigarette is. Read More
The Tax-free World Association is returning to China next year with its China’s Century Conference.Read More
A year-on-year fall in sales during the first six months of 2018 is said to have indicated that the number of smokers in Indonesia has 'tumbled'.Read More
Accusations of modern-day colonialism cannot be brushed off. The tobacco industry needs to examine closely what it is doing in Africa, from its leaf purchases to its product sales.Read More
The full version of this story from Australia provides some telling figures on the country's high-tax policy and how that policy eventually fails. But there is another way.Read More
UK smokers cite high tobacco prices as the main reason why they buy illicit products; and given that taxes make up 90 percent of prices, it is not difficult to see where the problem lies.Read More
The UK Government has no plans to impose a new tax on vaping products; as had been suggested in media reports at the beginning of August.Read More
Despite the measures already taken against the illegal trade in tobacco products, the EU Commission is reflecting on whether it should take further action.Read More
Smokers to pay the price
The Japanese system whereby tobacco manufacturers must apply to the Government before they can increase prices is a good one. Consumers are probably better informed that way.Read More
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