If the European Commission’s revisions to the tobacco products directive are adopted, traditional cigarette sales will be protected from competition by electronic cigarettes. Professor Michael Siegel, of Boston University’s School of Public Health, Read More
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco, Philip Morris USA and Lorillard have reached an agreement with 17 USstates, the District of Columbia andPuerto Rico to settle 10 years of claims related to the Non-Participating Manufacturer (NPM) adjustment provisions of Read More
An annual Harris Poll that measures how people in the US perceive various industries has found that tobacco is not among the top ranks when it comes to being ‘generally honest and trustworthy’, according to Read More
Star Scientific said yesterday that it was getting out of the smokeless tobacco business because of low sales and financial losses, the regulatory environment in the US, and the fact that its association with tobacco Read More
New York City is to offer community boards rewards of $10,000 to convince landlords to ban smoking in apartments, according to a report by Gary Baumgarten for CBS New York, quoting The New York Post. Under Read More
Tobacco growers in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, say they have decided not to grow tobacco next year because the prices on offer do not cover the cost of production, according to a story by Muhammad Irfan for Read More
The European Commission is due to adopt its proposals to revise the EU’s tobacco products directive on Wednesday. According to the Commission’s Top News, the proposed legislation comprises new and strengthened rules on Read More
Proposed revisions for the EU’s tobacco products directive will include a prohibition on slim cigarettes, a requirement for graphic health warnings, a ban on ‘taste-enhancing’ additives and a ban on descriptors such as ‘light’, Read More
Sweden’s Trade Minister, Ewa Björling, has said the EU faces “all out war” with Sweden if revisions to the tobacco products directive due out on Wednesday threaten Swedish snus, according to a story Read More
Former workers at a cigarette factory in the Bandarban area of Chittagong, Bangladesh, have threatened to step up their protests on Wednesday if production at the factory has not been resumed by then, according to Read More