Despite Thailand’s unrelenting efforts to curb smoking, the number of Thai smokers has risen by half a million to 13 million during the past four years, according to a Modernine TV report quoting Health Department director general, Jedsada Chokdamrongsuk. The Health Department on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding with the Thai Health Professional Alliance […]
A new portrait of young Australians shows they are better educated and smoking less than they were, but it shows also that they are increasingly overweight, using illicit drugs and drinking at risky levels, according to a story by Rachel Browne for the Sydney Morning Herald. Public health pioneer, Fiona Stanley, described the report, The […]
The European Public Health & Agriculture Consortium (EPHAC) has said that it is disappointed by the European Parliament’s approval of subsidies coupled to tobacco production. ‘Tobacco should not have a place in the 2014-2020 EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP),’ it said. ‘With this move, the European Parliament wants to inject taxpayer’s money into a toxic […]
The requirement that a death’s-head symbol has to appear on all cigarette packs sold in Bahrain could cost Bahrain Duty Free (BDF) 20 per cent of its profit this year, according to a Gulf Daily News story. BDF is currently not able to sell duty free cigarettes at the airport because international tobacco companies are […]
Japan Tobacco Inc’s domestic cigarette sales volume during February, at 8.6 billion, was down by 3.2 per cent on its February 2012 volume, 8.9 billion, which itself was increased by 0.3 per cent on that of February 2011, according to preliminary figures issued by the company today. Volume during the 11 months, April 2012-February 2013, […]
Imperial Tobacco’s business in Poland has been named one of the country’s best employers for the third year in a row. The Top Employers Certificate is awarded to those organisations that demonstrate best practice. It is presented on the basis of a detailed survey of HR policies and practice at a number of leading businesses […]
Electronic cigarettes can help wean some smokers off traditional cigarettes and stop them relapsing, according to researchers at the Department of Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, US. The researchers conclude that tobacco control practitioners must pay increased attention to the importance of the behavioral and social components of smoking addiction. ‘By […]
Tobacco manufacturers seem to have evaded the ban on misleading descriptors that convey reduced health risk messages, according to researchers at the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Center for Global Tobacco Control, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, US. Under the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (FSPTCA), the Food and Drug […]
US tobacco manufacturers are due to receive huge credits in respect of their 10-year dispute over Master Settlement Agreement payments. Philip Morris USA said yesterday that the arbitration panel in the pending Non-Participating Manufacturer (NPM) adjustment proceeding had issued a Stipulated Partial Settlement and Award that would allow the settlement agreement reached in December to […]
The board of directors of Philip Morris International yesterday declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.85 per common share, payable on April 12 to shareholders of record as of March 28. The ex-dividend date is March 26.
