In her first attempt at the slow-smoking challenge, Cosima Aichholzer beat the previous world record held by Christina Bartnikowski by six minutes. With a smoking time of two hours, nine minutes and six seconds, she joined the world’s top 15 slow smokers.
During the first six months of this year, British American Tobacco increased its cigarette volume by 3.4 percent while strongly developing its Next Generation Products.
Marlboro shipments in the US were down by 5.5 percent during the second quarter of this year, and the brand lost 0.1 of a percentage point of market share.
There was a slight increase in the number of women smokers in Japan between last year and this year, but overall the number of adult smokers in the country was down.
Newport and Natural American Spirit provided the high points of Reynolds American’s second quarter, which otherwise was characterized by falling cigarette and smokeless volumes.
Electronic cigarettes can help smokers quit or reduce their habit, and in doing so can help them reduce the risk of developing serious illnesses, according to Public Health France.
A proposal has been made in Malaysia that smokers should be barred from getting jobs, a level of denormalization that could be ‘bettered’ only by internal or external exile.
Calumet Advisors, a strategic consulting group dedicated to smoking alternatives and the vaping segment, has published a new white paper that explores market entry challenges and opportunities for e-cigarette business in Latin America.
Borgwaldt KC has added to its portfolio several devices that were previously offered by Burghart Tabaktechnik.
The 39.9 percent stake that the government has in the Fabrika Duhana Sarajevo tobacco factory is to be sold off as part of a wider privatization strategy.
Perhaps you could buy a foreign cigarette in South Korea if you were willing to walk a mile. But if you’re driving you’ll be lucky to find one at all on the country’s highway network.
Tobacco rejection seems to be the in-fashion way of keeping farmer prices low. Certainly, it has become one of the major complaints of farmers in a number of countries, including Pakistan.
Flue-cured deliveries in Zimbabwe have already passed earlier estimates for this season, but don’t mention farmer prices, which, against all predictions, have fallen as quality has risen.
Iggesund will employ only Japanese people when it opens its sales office in Japan on September 1 – out of respect for Japanese business culture.
What has happened during Malawi’s sales season has been described as ‘not a good development’; buyers are said to be using ‘a selective type of buying’; and prices are said to be ‘not favorable’ to farmers.
About 400 primary and high schools in Beijing have a tobacco outlet within 100 meters of them, but, presumably, many of those outlets were in existence before last year’s 100-meter exclusion zone was established.
Advance warning of a tobacco tax hike in January next year has provided a boost for Greece’s revenues, but the downside is that revenues are likely to suffer next year.
Smokers are often found among the financially less well-off sections of society, yet they are expected by those in the upper-echelons – those who make the laws – to pay far more than their fair share in taxes. Why?
Nerudia has been licensed by the U.K. Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency to manufacture pharmaceuticals at its Liverpool facility for both clinical trials and commercial drug products.
Maintaining the momentum of the vaping sector will require the development and harmonization of product standards to reassure consumers about these products’ potential.
Tobacco pest control technologies would be more effective if they were carried out correctly.
The spirit of innovation associated with HNB products has also gripped the supplying industries.
In classical oriental, securing supply may prove to be a greater challenge than sustaining demand.
Peter Nixon, PMI’s U.K. and Ireland MD, praises England’s progressive approach to new technologies.
Celebrating cigars at Puro Sabor
Five days of factory tours, farm visits, recreational activities and many, many cigars.
The ITGA worries about slumping demand for leaf tobacco and a lack of alternative crops
The grading system in Malawi, where yet again leaf tobacco prices are favoring buyers, is said to leave a lot to be desired.
Malawi’s tobacco sales season got off to an awful start on Monday with some prices well below a dollar a kg, which far from reflected the work that had gone into producing the leaf.
The prices paid to flue-cured tobacco growers are up in both Andhra Pradesh, where the selling season has just started, and in Karnataka, where it is about to close.
By the end of the first nine days of sales on Zimbabwe’s 2018 flue-cured tobacco market, the average grower price was up sharply on that of the 2017 season.
Human Rights Watch says that children in Zimbabwe are working under hazardous conditions on tobacco farms to earn money for the necessities of life.
It is often the cry of businesses and industries that ‘change’ should be warmly embraced because it leads to new opportunities. But change trade tariffs and the reaction is different.
Those opposed to the excessive use of electronic cigarettes among young people should define what they mean by ‘excessive’ use and, therefore, what they think is acceptable use.
New guidance from the US Food and Drug Administration is aimed at smoothing the path for manufacturers needing to list the ingredients in their products.
Information has been made available about the technical details that will define how the EU’s tobacco-products tracking and tracing system will operate.
For the sake of smokers, it is to be hoped that the European Court of Justice reaches a different conclusion to that of its Advocate General when considering the EU’s ban on snus.
In the US, hookah tobacco may contain flavors not permitted in cigarettes. Is it logical, then, to ban those flavors also in hookah tobacco, or to remove the cigarette-flavor bans?
A replication study of emissions from e-liquids has provided results that are significantly different to those of the original study.
Research has shown that vapor doesn’t discolor teeth in the way that smoke does. Presumably the same would hold for pub ceilings and extravagant facial hair.
As part of its investigations into the effects of vaping, PMI is developing novel in vitro methods for toxicity testing using human cells.
In fully converting a factory from cigarette to HEETS production, Philip Morris International has nailed its colors to the mast.
To the man in the street, there can be little doubt that heated tobacco products are far less risky than are combustible-tobacco products. The only question left is one of acceptability.
Those opposed to the excessive use of electronic cigarettes among young people should define what they mean by ‘excessive’ use and, therefore, what they think is acceptable use.
There are times when the US Food and Drug Administration could be accused of acting too slowly, but there are times also when it is necessary to stop and reflect.
In partnering in an event in London last night, Philip Morris International once again demonstrated that it is serious about encouraging smokers to switch to lower-risk products.
A replication study of emissions from e-liquids has provided results that are significantly different to those of the original study.
A change in government in New Zealand seems to have put a brake on a move to legalize vaping with nicotine, leaving smokers in a difficult place.
The Nigerian government is coming under pressure because of a planned three-year program of tax increases on tobacco products and alcohol.
For the sake of smokers, it is to be hoped that the European Court of Justice reaches a different conclusion to that of its Advocate General when considering the EU’s ban on snus.
A change in government in New Zealand seems to have put a brake on a move to legalize vaping with nicotine, leaving smokers in a difficult place.
Two women have filed lawsuits against the US-based tobacco-control activist Dr. Stanton Glantz, who denies the allegations made against him.
A charge brought in respect of a heated-tobacco product in New Zealand seemed to be a case of going through the motions; but it did highlight the need for more legal clarity.
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