The first 12 days of Zimbabwe’s flue-cured sales season saw what a Newsday story referred to as a marginal increase in volumes to 8.9 million kg, but a five per cent drop in the value of those sales to $31 million. The average price of $3.42 per kg was down from last season’s $3.60 per […]
Pfizer has agreed to settle the majority of lawsuits alleging its smoking cessation drug, Chantix, caused suicide and injuries, according to a Thomson Reuters story quoting the company’s annual filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The drug maker last year entered into agreements to settle about 80 per cent of the more than 2,700 […]
Imperial Tobacco’s sales force in Greece has won a national Sales Force of the Year award for the second consecutive year. The Sales Excellence Awards run by the National Greek Sales Institute (NGSI) acknowledge and reward best practice across all business sectors. The NGSI initiative culminated in a presentation ceremony in Athens where Nikos Nikiforidis, […]
Two provisions have been dropped from the final draft of an anti-tobacco law in Bangladesh following lobbying from tobacco companies, according to a story in The Daily Star. One of the provisions that have been dropped would have prevented farmers from obtaining soft loans or subsidies for tobacco cultivation. The other would have prevented separate […]
Israel’s Health Ministry is asking for public feedback on electronic cigarettes before deciding whether or not to ban them, according to a story by Judy Siegel-Itzkovich for the Jerusalem Post. This is despite a ministry committee’s having recommended that the marketing, import and use of e-cigarettes be prohibited for five years and that the prohibition […]
Iggesund Paperboard’s magazine, Inspire, which aims to convey inspiration about paperboard, paperboard packaging and design, is now available also in Japanese. Inspire, which has a print run of almost 20,000 copies and which is distributed around the world, was published already in Swedish, English, French, German and Mandarin. But the current issue, now being distributed, […]
British American Tobacco Korea said yesterday that it would reduce the price of its Vogue cigarettes to WON2,300 from WON2,500 per pack beginning March 14, according to a story in The Korea Times. There are three products under the Vogue brand name – Vogue 1 mg, Vogue Bleue 1 mg and Vogue 0.3 mg. “We […]
Philip Morris International and its affiliate, Papastratos Cigarette Manufacturing, say they have reached an agreement with the Greek government regarding the purchase of Greek oriental tobacco during the next three years. The co-operation agreement was signed by the Minister of Agriculture, Athanassios Tsaftaris, and PMI’s COO, André Calantzopoulos, in the presence of the Prime Minister, […]
Japan Tobacco Inc. said today that the JT Group had completed the acquisition of Al Nakhla Tobacco Company S.A.E. and Al Nakhla Tobacco Company – Free Zone S.A.E. (collectively, Nakhla). The acquisition was announced in a statement issued on November 16. Nakhla, with two factories, one in Cairo and one in Shebin El Kom, Egypt, […]
The Innovia Group said on Friday that it had completed the acquisition of the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) shareholding in Securency International and was now sole owner of the company. And as of Friday, Securency International was renamed Innovia Security Pty Ltd (in Australia) and Innovia Security S.A. de C.V. (in Mexico). ‘Innovia Security […]
Cuban cigar sales rose last year despite the continuing economic crisis in some of its most important European markets, including its number one buyer, Spain, according to an Associated Press Newswires story quoting state-run tobacco company officials. Sales had totaled $416 million in 2012, Habanos SA representatives told reporters at a press conference held to […]
The Imperial Tobacco Group’s half year results for the six months to March 31 are expected to be released on April 30. The interim dividend is due to be paid on August 16 to shareholders on the register at July 19.
Japan Tobacco International has appointed its regional sales and marketing vice-president for the Asia region as the new managing director of its UK division, according to a story by Alex Ralph for The Times. Jorge da Motta, who has been based in Hong Kong, will replace Martin Southgate who retired last month.
Cigarettes have been in short supply in Sri Lanka since the Ceylon Tobacco Co. (CTC) stopped distributing them on Feb. 27, reports Daily Mirror. A new law requires cigarette manufacturers print pictorial health warnings on its packs before releasing them to the market. The CTC went to court over the new regulations, which were introduced […]
Hauni Maschinenbau is acquiring the Borgwaldt Group, a supplier of measurement/analysis equipment and flavors for cigarette and filter production. Based in Hamburg, Germany, the Borgwaldt Group has around 150 employees worldwide. “We are delighted to welcome a globally recognized technology specialist with Borgwaldt Group as the youngest member of the Hauni family,” said Christopher Somm, […]
The results of a new survey indicating that a high percentage of teenager tobacco users in Alberta, Canada, consume flavored products are being used by anti-tobacco lobbyists to call for a ban on such products. According to a story by Keith Gerein for the Edmonton Journal, the 2010-11 Youth Smoking Survey conducted by Health Canada […]
KT&G is in the process of removing descriptors such as ‘lights’ from its packs even though it is under no legal obligation to do so, according to a story in The Korea Herald. In September, the Korean government tried to revise the National Health Promotion Law to include a ban on words that might misrepresent […]
Cigarettes have become more affordable in Sri Lanka during the past 10 years. A recent story in the Daily Mirror newspaper said that a study conducted on behalf of the National Authority on Tobacco and Alcohol (NATA) by Verité Research had shown that in 2010, cigarettes were relatively cheaper than they were in 2000. In […]
Following the success of iQOS, PMI gets ready to launch its other reduced-risk products.
The largest e-liquid companies are the first to enter the minefield of FDA regulations.
The EU has now fully implemented the new TPD, including its rules on vapor products.
New minimum tobacco prices that will be in force for the next two sales seasons are too low for growers and too high for buyers. So what’s new?
Poor weather, poor yields and poor purchase prices are pointing tobacco producers in Bosnia-Herzegovina towards the illegal trade.
The online registration deadlines for CORESTA’s 2017 Joint Study Group meetings are September 27 and October 8.
Vuse, the top-selling US electronic cigarette, is being targeted by a farmworker labor group unhappy with Reynolds American Inc’s attitude to tobacco-farmworker conditions of employment.
It doesn’t seem to make much sense to hold down leaf prices – perhaps below the cost of production – because cigarette manufacturers are holding too much stock.
Despite the benefits that tobacco growing produces for Zimbabwe – and for tobacco dealers and manufacturers, and governments in other countries – most growers remain poor.
During about the past 30 years, Poland’s smoking incidence has fallen from 42 percent to 24 percent, and, during about the past 20 years, smoking there has fallen by 60 percent.
UK retailers are concerned that an EU tobacco-products tracking-and-tracing system could prove burdensome.
It would seem that, in Turkey at least, now is the time for all good vapers to come to the aid of the party.
Although Kenya banned tobacco smoking in public places in 2007, activists say that not much has happened since to lighten the burden of tobacco-related diseases.
Passengers are to be frisked at Metro stations in Lucknow, India, to prevent them from taking tobacco products on to trains.
Some in tobacco control are unhappy about Derek Yach’s involvement in the ‘Foundation for a Smoke-free World’. But rather than prejudge the outcome, they need to make sure they hold his feet to the fire.
The online registration deadlines for CORESTA’s 2017 Joint Study Group meetings are September 27 and October 8.
Human evolution might be eradicating the genetic variation linked to heavy smoking, but this is always going to be the longest ‘end-game’ imaginable.
Electronic cigarettes are fun and effective at getting people to quit smoking. So what’s not to like? Well, according to one observer, it’s the fun bit.
Regular electronic-cigarette use among never smokers is ‘very rare’, according to the findings of a major new study in the UK.
Just in case you live in Scotland and are in any doubt about electronic cigarettes, health organizations in that country have stated that vaping is definitely less harmful than is smoking.
Even studies of the effects of vaping electronic cigarettes that find negative consequences cannot come to any conclusion other than that smokers would do well to switch to vaping.
The Global Forum on Nicotine is once again taking to the road to encourage a wider debate about the issues surrounding vaping.
It would seem that, in Turkey at least, now is the time for all good vapers to come to the aid of the party.
Vuse, the top-selling US electronic cigarette, is being targeted by a farmworker labor group unhappy with Reynolds American Inc’s attitude to tobacco-farmworker conditions of employment.
Andre Calantzopoulos, the chief executive of Philip Morris International, says that recent proposals by the US Food and Drug Administration invite dialogue rather than litigation.
What is said to be China’s first private litigation over tobacco smoking in public places has been launched by a woman who allegedly suffered anguish on board a smoky train.
A ‘smoking-cessation tax’ that would have raised about $225 million, but only $1 million of which would have been spent on smoking cessation, has been ruled unconstitutional in the US.
The Swedish government’s decision not to provide observations in relation to a case being brought to overturn an EU ban on the sale of snus is seen as a boost to that challenge.
Just seven days after the US Food and Drug Administration announced its new tobacco and nicotine agenda, there is speculation about court challenges.
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