JTI’s Cormac O’Rourke reflects on Malaysia’s struggle against the illicit trade in tobacco products. Read More
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Respondents to survey blame corruption, high excise duties and insufficient resources for enforcement agencies.Read More
Nielsen figures suggest that black market accounted for 62 percent of all tobacco sales in Malaysia last year.Read More
Local GM says growth depends on the recovery of the legal tobacco market, a regulated nicotine landscape and a resolution of affordability issues.Read More
Each day brings new demands in Malaysia from the hang 'em and flog 'em brigade who cannot bear to see people enjoying a smoke.Read More
If there is one thing that the tobacco industry, tobacco control and governments can agree on, it is that smokers should be punished with having to pay exorbitant levels of tax.Read More
Unless tobacco-related research funding is oversubscribed, researchers should take advantage of whatever funding is on offer and reject and expose it only if it proves to be tainted.Read More
Malaysia at least seems prepared to have a debate about the imposition of standardized tobacco packaging, but will that debate include committed smokers?Read More
The story below illustrates some interesting aspects of the status of cigarettes and smoking within society. Ideally, it seems, people should buy cigarettes but not smoke them.Read More
Something is out of proportion when a woman is sent to jail because she couldn't or wouldn't pay a fine for smoking where she should not have done.Read More
