Abstracts deadline nears
CORESTA’s Joint Study Group meetings are due to be held in October, but the deadline for the submission of paper abstracts is drawing near.
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Consumption increased
Sri Lanka is debating how it might reverse an increasing trend in cigarette consumption, which went from about 3.6 billion in 2014 to about 3.8 billion in 2016.
Tax increases ruled out
A candidate in South Korea’s forthcoming presidential elections has vowed to return cigarette prices to the levels of 2014 – before a huge tax increase on January 1, 2015.
Plain packs persuasive
A new review has been lobbed on to the battlefield of standardized tobacco packaging – this one claiming that the UK’s imposition of such packaging could result in hundreds of thousands of smokers quitting their habit.
TFWA Asia event imminent
Nanyang Brothers Tobacco is one of the companies scheduled to exhibit at this year’s TFWA Asia Pacific Exhibition & Conference in Singapore.
Graphic health warnings
Graphic health warnings are due to make an appearance in Laos from the start of next month.
Smoking ban concessions
With opposition from within some influential quarters and with time running out to pass legislation in the current parliamentary session, Japan’s Ministry of Health is looking at offering smoking-ban concessions.
Criminals growing their own
In Australia, where tobacco production is illegal, the soaring prices of cigarettes is encouraging some criminals to start growing the crop on a commercial scale.
E-cig evidence mounts
British American Tobacco, which has been assiduous during recent years in its nicotine-product research, has uncovered further evidence that vapor is hugely less risky than is smoke.
Seed sales up hugely
Flue-cured tobacco seed sales in Zimbabwe are running at more than 300 percent higher than they were last year, but it is not clear how this increase is likely to be reflected in the crop size.
PMI to webcast meeting
Philip Morris International’s chairman, Louis C. Camilleri, and its CEO, André Calantzopoulos, will address the company’s annual meeting of shareholders on May 3.
Prices taxing for vulnerable
There seems to be growing concern even outside tobacco-industry circles about the negative effects that cigarette tax hikes have on many vulnerable smokers.
Losing the packaging fight
It seems that even Intellectual Property insiders are concluding that businesses – especially tobacco businesses – are losing the battle against standardized packaging.
Deeming rule targeted by bill
The US Food and Drug Administration’s deeming rule is expected to come under attack this week from a bill presented in the House of Representatives.
Tobacco seeds zero rated
Tobacco seeds imported into Azerbaijan, which were subject to a three percent duty, will, from the end of next month, be zero rated.
Mighty pleads for license
Faced with allegations of tax evasion, the Philippines’ Mighty Corp, whose tobacco manufacturing business is said to support tens of thousands of workers, has asked for a fair hearing.
EU names sensory panel
The EU Commission has named the six members of its tobacco characterizing flavour panel, but it is yet to establish the technical group of sensory and chemical assessors that the panel will be able to consult.
Heart attacks fall in Calgary
Hospital visits due to heart attacks fell in the city of Calgary after the introduction of public-places tobacco-smoking bans, but it is not known whether the bans caused this fall.
Call for tax increase
A study in Malaysia has found that 1.1 million tobacco-smoking-related deaths could be prevented if cigarette excise were increased; but others point out that the illegal trade would have to be addressed firstly.
Sacking veiled in vapor
Some people are speculating that his opposition to electronic cigarettes was at least one of the factors that led to the sacking on Friday of the US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy.
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