Cigarette prices are due to rise next month, and again in October, according to a SeeNews France story. French health minister, Marisol Touraine, said last week that cigarette prices would increase from July 1 as part Read More
Imperial Tobacco has pledged its support for skills and training projects for jobseekers in the Cantabria region of northern Spain. The ‘Conduce tu futuro’ (drive your future) course is designed to help people find commercial Read More
TerraCycle, supported by Imperial Tobacco Canada, is planning this year to collect and recycle more than 10 million used cigarette filters this year, according to a Canada Newswire story. TerraCycle and Imperial partnered last year in Read More
About 43 per cent of smokers in the autonomous Kurdistan region of Iraq are males aged from 15 to 25, according to a story by Salih Waladbagi for the Kurdish Globe, quoting figures from a survey conducted by Read More
E-Cig Cavern (E-CC) is supporting the decision by the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to regulate all nicotine-containing products. In a press note issued through PRNewswire, the company said it strongly Read More
The Philippines-based LT Group is to look to its core businesses of tobacco and liquor for further growth, according to a story in The Philippine Star. “We will focus on our core business and fully Read More
The Irish Presidency of the EU says that its revised version of the European Commission’s proposed Tobacco Products Directive is ‘a balanced compromise that should be agreeable to the majority of the member states’. Read More
The Norwegian Heart and Lung Patient Organization, LHL, has called for Norway to become tobacco-smoke free, according to a story in The Nordic Page. LHL’s secretary general, Frode Jahren, was quoted as saying that Read More
The prevalence of tobacco smoking in the US fell from 18.9 per cent in 2011 to 18.0 per cent in 2012, according to estimates based on data from the 2012 National Health Interview Survey and previous surveys. Smoking fell from 24.7 Read More
Alliance One International’s sales and other operating revenues during the year to the end of March, at $2,243.8 million, were increased by 4.3 per cent on those of the previous year. Tobacco sales were up by $94.1 Read More