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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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) Read More
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.Read More