Reynolds American (RAI) is expected to complete its acquisition of Lorillard on Friday. At the same time, Imperial Tobacco’s ITG Brands will acquire from RAI and Lorillard operating companies the KOOL, Salem, Winston and Maverick cigarette brands, and the blu eCigs electronic cigarette brand, along with other assets. In a note posted on both the […]
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said yesterday that the state’s smoking rate fell last year to a historic low of 7.3 percent among high school students and 14.5 percent among adults, according to a story by Joseph Sector for the Democrat and Chronicle, relayed by the TMA. In 2011, smoking among high school students stood […]
C.Gars Auctions is due to hold its summer auction sale at The Bulgari Hotel in Knightsbridge, London, from 14.00 on June15. A press note from C.Gars said that the June auction would be the 15th such event since its auction department was established in 2009 ‘Auctioneer Jonathan Humbert will once again be conducting this important […]
In an industrial workshop in Strömsbruk, northern Sweden, multimedia artist Nils Olof Hedenskog is creating an installation that it is hoped will attract interest from art institutions around the world. The raw material he is working with is paperboard – specifically Invercote from Iggesund Paperboard. “For me there exists a tension between the limitlessness of […]
A project under which Egypt’s Eastern Tobacco Company is partnering with Malawi’s Auction Holdings Limited (AHL) to set up in Malawi a $20 million cigarette manufacturing plant is due to be completed within 18 months, according to a StarAfrica story. Late last month it was announced that the Malawi government and Eastern had signed a […]
The EU Commission has said it does not believe that current court cases brought against the new Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) pose obstacles to the directive’s implementation. The Commission was responding to a question by the Croatian MEP Dubravka Šuica. In part of the preamble to her question, Šuica said that some tobacco companies had […]
Smoking looked set to become costlier in Bangladesh during the new financial year after Finance Minister A.M.A. Muhith last week proposed imposing tax increases on tobacco products, acetate tow and tobacco-product paper, according to a story in The Financial Express. The budget proposals include too plans to increase the corporation tax levied on publicly-traded tobacco […]
Alliance One International is due to host from 08.00 Eastern Time on June 9 a conference call at www.aointl.com to report its financial results for the fiscal year ended March 31. A replay of the conference call will be made available from 11.00 on June 9 through 11.00 on June 14 by telephone at (888) […]
Japan Tobacco International (JTI) Korea has launched Camel Evolution Super Slims, the first low-tar super-slim brand within its Camel lineup. Camel Evolution Super Slims—which became available for purchase June 4—are a locally customized blend for the Korean market. The product is packaged in a stylish urban design that targets smokers between the ages of 25 […]
The Czech government has approved a draft bill that will ban smoking in bars and restaurants. Previous governments have attempted to enact the same restrictions but ran into opposition, leaving the Czech Republic as the last EU member to allow unrestricted smoking in restaurants. One quarter of Czechs smoke, according to Eurobarometer. “With this law, […]
Iggesund Paperboard is expanding its distribution in the United States by making its flagship product, Invercote, available from coast to coast. The company has established an inventory position and sheeting capabilities in Pomona, California, USA, with the objective of making its flagship product—which is already available in more than 100 countries—readily available for quick-turn market […]
The Crimean government has announced that a visiting delegation of Chinese businessmen intend to invest in tobacco cultivation within the territory, which was annexed by Russia in March 2014. Chinese equipment and technology would be supplied to the semiautonomous territory, which has been fighting to secure foreign investment amid trade sanctions imposed by Ukraine, the […]
Vape Organics, an e-liquid manufacturer based in Riverside, California, USA, announced on June 2 that it had received U.S. Department of Agriculture certification for its organic nicotine designed for e-cigarettes. According to the company, the product is “both USP grade and uniquely free of any petroleum-derived solvent.” Vape Organics director of operations Sheerlie Ryngler said […]
Alliance One Tobacco Kenya has announced that it will begin to scale down its operations in Kenya, citing a slump in the leaf tobacco sector. As part of the scale-down process, the company will no longer sponsor tobacco farmers that have been growing leaf tobacco on a contract basis and will cease field operations beginning […]
Philip Morris International (PMI) and British American Tobacco (BAT) have sued the British government over plain-packaging legislation passed in March. The law, which would take effect from May 2016, requires cigarettes to be sold in packages of uniform shape and size that feature only the brand name and contain prominent graphic health warnings. England is […]
Ukraine has suspended the legal proceedings it brought against Australia through the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2012, which claimed the country’s plain-packaging laws were trade-restrictive. Instead, the Eastern European nation—which received financial support from British American Tobacco to pursue litigation—has stated it will attempt to seek a mutually agreed-upon solution with Australia to resolve […]
North Korea has banned foreign cigarettes, reportedly as part of efforts to reduce the country’s high smoking rate, according to a story in The Korea Times (Seoul). “We have also prohibited people from using electronic cigarettes and smokeless cigarettes,” Choi Hyun-sook, a high-ranking official at the health ministry, was quoted as telling the Korean Central […]
Proposals by the anti-tobacco group Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) have been described by the UK’s Tobacco Manufacturers’ Association (UKTMA) as an unwarranted intrusion on individual freedoms and a dogmatic attack on a legal industry. “This report [Smoking Still Kills] shows just how draconian and self-serving ASH’s agenda has become,” said the UKTMA’s director […]
The agreements drawn up between the EU and the four major transnational tobacco companies to crack down on cigarette smuggling and recoup lost tax revenues are failing to meet their stated aims, according to a medicalxpress.com report citing research published online in the journal Tobacco Control. The agreements are said to be littered with loopholes […]
Figures released by Thailand’s National Statistical Office showed that the number of smokers aged 15 and above rose by 21 percent year-on-year to 11.4 million in 2014, according to a story in the Chiang Rai Times relayed by the TMA. Last year, Thailand was estimated to have about 400,000 smokers aged 18 years and under. […]
Following the success of iQOS, PMI gets ready to launch its other reduced-risk products.
The largest e-liquid companies are the first to enter the minefield of FDA regulations.
The EU has now fully implemented the new TPD, including its rules on vapor products.
One way of ‘encouraging’ Indonesian tobacco manufacturers to buy local leaf is to make such purchases a condition of importing tobacco.
22nd Century says that being free of a ‘restrictive license agreement’ with British American Tobacco means that it can pursue more lucrative strategic partnerships.
Tobacco accounted for a third of the value of the organic commodities produced last year in the US state of Virginia.
New minimum tobacco prices that will be in force for the next two sales seasons are too low for growers and too high for buyers. So what’s new?
Poor weather, poor yields and poor purchase prices are pointing tobacco producers in Bosnia-Herzegovina towards the illegal trade.
The online registration deadlines for CORESTA’s 2017 Joint Study Group meetings are September 27 and October 8.
British American Tobacco is putting forward a scientific framework that would allow innovations in next generation products to move quickly, but with regulatory oversight, onto consumer markets.
Small-cigar smokers in the US will, within a year, see the placement on their products of warnings telling them, for instance, that cigars contain nicotine, an addictive chemical.
During about the past 30 years, Poland’s smoking incidence has fallen from 42 percent to 24 percent, and, during about the past 20 years, smoking there has fallen by 60 percent.
UK retailers are concerned that an EU tobacco-products tracking-and-tracing system could prove burdensome.
It would seem that, in Turkey at least, now is the time for all good vapers to come to the aid of the party.
Most tobacco smokers will have observed that their smoke tends to deter annoying insects, and now it seems cigarette-butt extracts can be used to reduce mosquito populations.
British American Tobacco is putting forward a scientific framework that would allow innovations in next generation products to move quickly, but with regulatory oversight, onto consumer markets.
Some in tobacco control are unhappy about Derek Yach’s involvement in the ‘Foundation for a Smoke-free World’. But rather than prejudge the outcome, they need to make sure they hold his feet to the fire.
The online registration deadlines for CORESTA’s 2017 Joint Study Group meetings are September 27 and October 8.
Human evolution might be eradicating the genetic variation linked to heavy smoking, but this is always going to be the longest ‘end-game’ imaginable.
There are inconsistencies in the way that regulators in Canada approach tobacco and marijuana, according to the CEO of the country’s biggest tobacco manufacturer.
British American Tobacco is putting forward a scientific framework that would allow innovations in next generation products to move quickly, but with regulatory oversight, onto consumer markets.
Most sentient governments must by now be aware that vapor products can be used as a force for positive change, but they cannot resist taxing them – making them less attractive to consumers.
Just in case you live in Scotland and are in any doubt about electronic cigarettes, health organizations in that country have stated that vaping is definitely less harmful than is smoking.
Even studies of the effects of vaping electronic cigarettes that find negative consequences cannot come to any conclusion other than that smokers would do well to switch to vaping.
Andre Calantzopoulos, the chief executive of Philip Morris International, says that recent proposals by the US Food and Drug Administration invite dialogue rather than litigation.
What is said to be China’s first private litigation over tobacco smoking in public places has been launched by a woman who allegedly suffered anguish on board a smoky train.
A ‘smoking-cessation tax’ that would have raised about $225 million, but only $1 million of which would have been spent on smoking cessation, has been ruled unconstitutional in the US.
The Swedish government’s decision not to provide observations in relation to a case being brought to overturn an EU ban on the sale of snus is seen as a boost to that challenge.
Just seven days after the US Food and Drug Administration announced its new tobacco and nicotine agenda, there is speculation about court challenges.
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