Cigar aficionados are now bidding in C.Gars’ online vintage cigar auction, which is due to end on February 1. The auction includes 270 lots of vintage, mature and limited-edition Cuban and Dominican cigars and is expected to realize more than £300,000. ‘In 2014, 1,000 boxes of vintage cigars were auctioned by us, online and offline, […]
ITC’s profit during the quarter that ended on December 31, at Rs26.35 billion, fell slightly short of analysts’ estimates of Rs26.92 billion as higher taxes on cigarettes and a government push to discourage tobacco consumption throughout India hurt sales, according to a Reuters story. ITC, which accounts four out of every five cigarettes sold in […]
Vapor products seem to have hit a rocky patch in the US and it is possible that only well thought out regulation will help smooth the way ahead. Bonnie Herzog, the managing director of Beverage, Tobacco & Convenience Store Research at Wells Fargo Securities, says that a survey her group had conducted among about 20,000 […]
Legislation aimed at imposing in the UK standardized packaging for cigarettes and fine-cut tobacco is due to be put before parliament during the current session, which is scheduled to end on March 30. Many observers had assumed that the legislation would not be introduced until after May 7, when the UK is due to go […]
Japan Tobacco International has rejected a trade union plan to save 500 jobs at the Gallaher cigarette factory site in Northern Ireland, according to a story by Henry McDonald for The Guardian. Unite, the union representing most workers at the plant, confirmed on Wednesday that the owners planned to end production there by 2017. Overall […]
The health minister of Canada’s Quebec province, Gaétan Barrette, has come out in favour of using electronic cigarettes as a way to quit smoking, according to a story by Geoffrey Vendeville for the Montreal Gazette. “Electronic cigarettes are a means to quit smoking that is clearly extraordinarily efficient,” he told reporters after a legislative committee […]
Imperial Tobacco is due to hold its Annual General Meeting on January 28. And, following the conclusion of the AGM, a general meeting will be held to seek shareholder approval for the proposed acquisition of assets in the US. The presentation transcripts and slides from both meetings will be available on the company’s website following […]
Beijing residents have been assured that a tobacco smoking ban due to come into force later this year will be enforced, according to a Global Times story quoting the Xinhua news agency. The Beijing municipal legislature in November passed an anti-smoking bill banning smoking in all indoor public places and workplaces, and on public transport. […]
People in Germany who smoke on the balconies of their homes could be sued in the future if their smoking is deemed to be ‘excessive’, according to a story in the Electronic Telegraph. Germany’s supreme court has ruled that Germans can sue their neighbours for excessive smoking on their balconies. The court did not define […]
Since the extension on January 1 of South Korea’s tobacco smoking ban to include all bars, restaurants, coffee shops and Internet cafés, smokers have been flocking to the only places where they can still smoke: small-scale indoor sports venues, The Korea Times has reported. There are about 15,000 billiard halls and 7,000 screen golf venues […]
Malawi’s Tobacco Control Commission (TCC) has started assessing the damage that has been caused to tobacco crops by the floods that have followed heavy rains in recent months. CEO Bruce Munthali told the local press that the heavy rains and floods had caused leaching of fertilisers, and made it difficult for farmers to control weeds […]
A study has found that 88 percent of long-term users of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) products want to quit NRT because of the cost of the products, because they are tired of feeling addicted, and because of fears of adverse health consequences, according to a story on 7th Space Interactive citing a study published in […]
China’s tobacco industry generated Yuan1.05 trillion ($169.7 billion) in profits and taxes during 2014, up 10.02 percent year-on-year, according to a story in the Global Times citing data from the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration. Last year also the industry provided the government with revenues of more than Yuan911.03 billion in profits, taxes and fees, a […]
Tobacco cigarette imports into South Korea fell between 2013 and 2014 but, at the same time, electronic-cigarette imports rose sharply as smokers tried to kick their habit before the imposition of a huge, tax-induced price increase on January 1, according to a story in The Korea Herald citing customs office figures. The Korea Customs Service […]
Universal Corporation is due to webcast a conference call to be held on February 3 following the release of its results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2015 after market close on that date. The conference call, which will begin at 17.00 Eastern Time, will be hosted by Candace C. Formacek, vice president and […]
Some of the best-known Italian directors, producers and scriptwriters have put their names to a letter opposing a proposal to ban smoking from films and television, according to a Dpa story. The group of 20 artists, including Oscar-winning directors Paolo Sorrentino and Gabriele Salvatores, wrote a letter to La Repubblica newspaper saying they felt they […]
The Maldives’ Health Protection Agency (HPA) has expressed concern over the display of hookah smokers at the Cultural Festival organized by the Maldives Broadcasting Corporation, according to a story in Haveeru Online. People smoking hookahs were shown during the festival as representing one of the age-old but dying Maldivian traditions and customs. Some television channels, […]
Big cigarette companies in the US are encouraging the government to help snuff out competition from small start-ups trying to sell electronic cigarettes, according to a piece in the National Review Online by Gregory Conley, president of the American Vaping Association. ‘When the success of America’s largest companies is threatened, they often turn to the […]
Japan Tobacco Inc’s domestic cigarette sales volume during December, at 10.2 billion, was down by 2.3 percent on that of December 2013, 10.4 billion, according to preliminary figures issued by the company on Friday. The December 2013 figure was up by 1.1 percent on that of December 2012. Volume during January-December, at 112.4 billion, was […]
Altria is due to host a live audio webcast at www.altria.com from 09.00 Eastern Time on January 30 to discuss its 2014 fourth-quarter and full-year business results. The results will be issued in a press release about 07.00 on the same day. During the webcast, which will be in listen-only mode, chairman and CEO Marty […]
India’s promise is likely to remain where it has been for a long time—on the horizon.
H.B. Fuller invests in new products and facilities to help its tobacco customers succeed.
The future of China’s vapor market hinges on regulation, innovation and consumer education.
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.
Universal Corporation’s first-quarter results will be the subject of a webcast conference call on August 3.
Even though they have been offered incentives to diversify into other crops and even though some diversification has occurred, tobacco growers in the Philippines seem happy to keep growing tobacco.
Grower prices for Zimbabwe’s 2017 flue-cured tobacco crop are at the same level as they were in respect of the 2016 crop.
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.
Governments, it seems, must be convinced that they would be acting in their own best revenue-interests before they enact ‘effective’, tobacco-product taxation policies.
A judge in the US has upheld the Food and Drug Administration’s authority to ‘deem’ vapor products to be tobacco products.
A head teacher at a school in Australia allows her students to smoke during breaks because that’s what it takes to get them to stay at school and continue their studies.
New regulations being proposed in Israel would require cigarette advertisements in newspapers or online to be accompanied by public notices telling of the dangers of smoking.
Tobacco-control advocates in Cambodia are desperate for the first fines to be issued to smokers breaking the rules. They seem to forget that smokers are penalised already through the tax system.
The ‘early registration’ deadlines for CORESTA’s 2017 Joint Study Group meetings are July 31 and August 1.
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.
British American Tobacco’s cigarette volume was down sharply in the first six months of this year, but it says it has made good progress with its next-generation-product business.
The evidence that they provide might be circumstantial, but the results of a recent survey suggest that at least some smokers can use vapor products to help them quit traditional cigarettes.
As capacity issues are overcome, more and more consumers are going to find themselves with a range of heat-not-burn products from which to choose.
If, as seems logical, the expansion of the capacity of HEETS production is reflecting increasing demand for these products, then demand must be strong.
A judge in the US has upheld the Food and Drug Administration’s authority to ‘deem’ vapor products to be tobacco products.
A judge in the US has upheld the Food and Drug Administration’s authority to ‘deem’ vapor products to be tobacco products.
In highlighting a complaint of murder filed in the Netherlands against the tobacco industry, Action on Smoking and Health says that criminal charges against the industry would be feasible in the US.
A law suit launched in Canada accuses the federal government of failing to stop, as agreed, the proliferation of contraband tobacco producers.
The Australian government has been called on to oppose the inclusion of the international tribunal system’s Investor-State Dispute Settlement provision in trade agreements.
The challenge was relatively costly and ultimately it failed, but the tobacco industry had little option but to try to overturn the first standardized packaging law to come into force.
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