A delegation of tobacco growers from the Indian State of Andhra Pradesh is planning to travel to New Delhi on August 5 to press the union government for compensation following a decision to slash the state’s flue-cured production target, according to a story in the Hindu. Earlier this month the 2015-16 authorized flue-cured crop for […]
Japan Tobacco Inc. said today that the JT Group had completed the acquisition of Logic Technology Development, one of the leading US e-cigarette brands. The acquisition was first announced at the end of April 30. Founded in 2010, Logic is said to sell a range of high quality rechargeable, ready-to-use and disposable products, including the […]
Universal Corporation is due to webcast a conference call that will be held from 17.00 Eastern Time on August 6 following the release of the company’s results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2016 after market close on that date. The conference call, which will be in listen-only mode, will be hosted by vice […]
Hungary will not shy away from penalizing retailers and tobacco companies further for lodging tax complaints with the European Commission, according to a Portfolio story. “We are not planning to surrender to the European Commission with respect to the special taxes on the retail and tobacco industries,” Janos Lazar, minister leading the Prime Minister’s Office, […]
While India had signed up to the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, it had failed to initiate even the first steps towards honoring the agreement, according to a story in the Times of India. The Union government, mainly due to pressure from the tobacco lobby, had never seriously initiated policies aimed at […]
Cuba is preparing to unveil a new tourist attraction inspired by the country’s cigar industry, according to a Xinhua Newswire story. Cuba’s Tourism Ministry said recently that it would launch the Tobacco Trail in September during this year’s tourism and nature fair in Pinar del Rio province, which is home to lush tobacco plantations. “We […]
New Irish research published on BMJ Open has found that people aged 16-17 see standardized packs as being less attractive than packs with EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) warnings, which include graphics and text covering 65 per cent of a pack’s main surfaces, according to a story in the Irish Times. And they perceive that […]
The management of Reynolds American Inc. and its operating companies will discuss the companies’ performances and plans during presentations to the investment community in New York on July 31 and in London on August 3. The presentations will be webcast from about 09.00 local time on both days. The webcasts will be available online on […]
Imperial Tobacco Canada, British American Tobacco’s Canadian subsidiary and the Canadian subsidiaries of Philip Morris International and Japan Tobacco International, yesterday had their request to cancel a C$1.1 billion provisional execution order granted by the Quebec Court of Appeal. Three Quebec Court of Appeal judges unanimously cancelled the order after Imperial Tobacco Canada, Rothmans, Benson […]
The Indonesian Finance Ministry is being urged to earmark all tobacco tax revenue for the health budget because the health sector is said to be heavily burdened by tobacco-related medical issues, according to a story in The Jakarta Post. Health Ministry secretary-general Untung Suseno Sutarjo was quoted as saying that such a policy would be […]
Turkmenistan is the country with the lowest proportion of smokers, eight percent, according to a Geo News (Pakistan) story quoting the World Health Organization’s director general, Dr. Margaret Chan. “Recently a WHO overview showed that in Turkmenistan only eight percent of the population smokes,” Chan told the country’s President, Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov. “This is the lowest […]
Following Essentra’s announcement that it is planning to close its UK filters factory on South Tyneside by the end of this year, the Unite union has said it will leave ‘no stone unturned’ in its bid to save jobs, according to a Shields Gazette story relayed by the TMA. Unite’s regional officer, Mark Sanderson, said […]
A health expert has taken issue with a cartoon in Tobacco Control Journal that depicts vapers as idiots. In his blog, The Rest of the Story, Dr. Michael Siegel, a Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, asks: ‘Why is Tobacco Control making fun of vapers and calling […]
In reacting to news that cigarette smoking and alcohol use is stable or declining among US teenagers, but that marijuana use is on the rise, a health expert has declared that public health campaigns are working. In a piece on the Penn State University website, Victoria M. Indivero cited health statistics researchers as having found […]
The French Senate’s Social Affairs Committee yesterday removed a clause from a proposed health bill that would have required standardized tobacco packaging, according to a story in the Guardian relayed by the TMA. The committee instead passed an amendment requiring tobacco-pack health warnings to be made larger, in line with the new EU Tobacco Products […]
In a new report by the World Economic Forum (WEF) that ranks countries based on their cigarette consumption, Turkey came out in eighth place, despite the government’s considerable efforts at curbing smoking, according to a story in the Zaman daily newspaper. The newspaper reported that while tobacco consumption in the West seemed to be on […]
The Philippines’ Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has said it will require all domestic tobacco companies to install closed-circuit television cameras in their manufacturing halls and warehouses so that the government can monitor their production and ensure the payment of the correct taxes, according to a story in The Philippine Inquirer. BIR Commissioner Kim Jacinto-Henares […]
Quebec’s latest ‘tobacco’ bill has been criticized for conflating very different products into a single category, giving draconian powers to governments and prohibiting individuals from freely choosing for themselves. In an opinion piece in the Montreal Gazette, Ian Irvine, a professor of economics at Concordia University and an associate researcher with the Montreal Economic Institute, […]
Russia’s cigarette volume declined by 4.2 percent during the second quarter of this year, meaning that, during the first six months, volume was down by 6.5 percent, according to a story by Bob Bryan for Business Insider. Bryan quoted Philip Morris International’s CFO, Jacek Olczak, as saying that his company now expected a full-year market […]
Iggesund Paperboard expects that its new sheeting and warehousing facilities in Taiwan will be operational by the end of this month. The new facilities are aimed at enhancing Iggesund’s distribution service in Asia, with the main aim being to shorten lead times. But the company said that it was not just establishing a distribution channel […]
The future of China’s vapor market hinges on regulation, innovation and consumer education.
The creation of “expert panels” for characterizing flavors hints at the folly of the ingredients debate.
The focus on harm reduction makes tobacco companies even more attractive investments.
The EU has now fully implemented the new TPD, including its rules on vapor products.
We do our best to stave off both. In the case of e-cig taxes, vapers are leading the resistance.
There has been a big increase in new farmers registering to grow tobacco in Zimbabwe during the 2017-18 season.
Tobacco farmers in Zambia grow food crops using inputs bought with loans obtained for tobacco growing. No wonder the government remains committed to tobacco.
The once-famous tobacco research station at Kutsaga, Harare, is struggling with problems created by underfunding.
Grower prices in Malawi are said to be ahead of those of last year because of the quality of the leaf on offer, but in Zimbabwe, where quality is also good, prices are down.
The tobacco industry is playing its part in a program aimed at integrating former members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia into the society they previously fought.
Alliance One International was hit in fiscal 2017 by the triple whammy of smaller leaf tobacco crops in Brazil, Tanzania and the US, but the outlook for fiscal 2018 is brighter.
Smokers, who are often financially impoverished, are called on to provide government revenues the rest of society won’t provide. At least some people seem to recognize that this is unfair.
The smoking ban has decimated pubs in England and, in doing so, destroyed vital meeting places. A cynic might ask whether this wasn’t one of the intended ‘unintended consequences’.
In a world assailed by the fumes from traffic, perfumes and household cleaners; the question must be asked as to why electronic-cigarette vapor should be singled out for banning.
In the world of tobacco, five percent seems to equal nothing; so a nation that has a smoking prevalence of less than five percent is ‘smoke-free’.
EU smokers are abused by societies in ways that would be seen as discrimination if they were applied to other people; so it is well that a group is standing up for them.
In another contribution to the scientific study of vapor and nicotine, British American Tobacco has found that vapor does not, under the conditions of the study, impede the healing of wounds.
The once-famous tobacco research station at Kutsaga, Harare, is struggling with problems created by underfunding.
At the Global Forum on Nicotine, now being held in Poland, British American Tobacco is due to describe how to tell whether tobacco in a heated-tobacco product is being heated or burnt.
The vapor from heated tobacco products, including that from British American Tobacco’s hybrid, iFuse, appears to offer a far-less risky experience than does the smoke from traditional cigarettes.
Researchers in Germany have discovered that copper hydroxide nanoparticles provide protection against toxic oxygen radicals in cigarette smoke.
The commitment of the tobacco industry to harm reduction seems no longer to be in doubt. Philip Morris International has just announced another huge investment in heated-tobacco products.
In another contribution to the scientific study of vapor and nicotine, British American Tobacco has found that vapor does not, under the conditions of the study, impede the healing of wounds.
In a world assailed by the fumes from traffic, perfumes and household cleaners; the question must be asked as to why electronic-cigarette vapor should be singled out for banning.
There was a time when, if you were going to San Francisco, all you needed were some flowers in your hair. Now, if you’re a menthol-cigarette smoker, you’d better take also packs of your favorite brand.
A high take-up of vapor products in the UK has helped reduce the prevalence of tobacco smoking to the point where some observers are able to contemplate the end game.
In Israel, two politicians are seeking to have cigarette companies prosecuted because their actions are allegedly ‘an attack on Israeli residents’.
Reynolds American Inc. shareholders are seeking more information than they have been given in respect of the proposed acquisition of the company by British American Tobacco.
A commentator in the US has posed a question that is rarely asked: Why aren’t smokers thanked for filling budget holes with funds that no other section of society is willing to provide.
Smokers in Oklahoma are being asked to pay, indirectly, for helping to fill a budget hole. But that request is being challenged.
Philip Morris New Zealand believes that action taken against its heat not burn product by the Ministry of Health demonstrates that existing regulations do not fit well with new technology.
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