A Norwegian researcher says that snus seems to protect against smoking if the snus-taking debut does not happen too early during adolescence, according to a Reuters story. Ingeborg Lund, a researcher with the Norwegian Institute Read More
Swedish Match’s sales for the year to the end of December, at SEK12,610 million, were up by 1 percent on those of 2012. And sales during the fourth quarter of 2013, at SEK3,178 million, were up by 1 Read More
White Cloud Electronic Cigarettes has launched Invisi-Vapor cartridges, which are said to produce 95 percent less vapor than is produced by its ClearDraw cartridges. “For times when customers do not want to draw unwanted attention to Read More
Zimbabwe’s 2014 flue-cured tobacco marketing season was due to open today, with expectations high for both volume sales and earnings, according to a story in New Zimbabwe. The 91,000 growers—mostly small-scale farmers—who registered to Read More
The more than 800 members of the Nigeria Independent Tobacco Association in the Oke Ogun area of Oyo State are to benefit from NGN282 million in interest-free loans from British American Tobacco Iseyin Agronomy (BATIA), a Read More
Health officials have begun to predict the end of cigarette smoking in the U.S., according to an Associated Press story. They have long wished for a cigarette-free country but previously have shied away from Read More
Counterfeit cigarettes are among the illicit goods most likely to be smuggled across South Africa’s borders on a daily basis, according to a Mondaq story. The story said that the illicit trade in counterfeit Read More
Smokers, who, in recent years, have been finding it increasingly difficult to book suitable accommodation, now have Smoketels.com, a website that specializes in smoker-friendly hotels, according to a story by Joe Sharkey for The Read More
The New Zealand government has blocked an attempt by Labour to have parliament ask for the release of the full agreed text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade agreement before it is signed, according Read More
Although Turkey had had success in fighting substance abuse, it remained one of the top 10 tobacco-using countries, according to a story in today’s Zaman quoting a report by the Turkish temperance organization Yeşilay. Read More