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23
Dec

The Food and Drug Administration, the health body that regulates cigarettes and tobacco products in the US, has rejected an application by Swedish Match North America Inc. that would allow tobacco distributors to market snus pouches as less harm...
23
Dec

Cigarette giants British American Tobacco have backed an Austrian fund to increase its ownership of Bosnian firm Fabrika Duhana Sarejevo to 78.8%, meaning it has acquired their tobacco...
28
Oct

British American Tobacco, the giants who own Lucky Strike, Pall Mall and Rothmans have launched an audacious $47bn bid to buy its US partner Reynolds American. Reynolds American is the second biggest American tobacco company behind the worldâ...
28
Oct

MPs have been left with plenty to mull over regarding illicit tobacco as the 2016 Smokers’ Anti Illicit Trade Survey revealed that 3.4 million smokers buy tax-free tobacco products. “Because of the tax on tobacco, people see it as a...
01
Oct

Despite proposed tax hikes and numerous anti-smoking campaigns that have seen cigarette use decline in the US, it appears that investors are snapping up tobacco shares. California’s proposal to triple the tax on a single pack of cigarette...
16
Sep

Despite already being considered one of the most expensive countries in the world to smoke, Australia are set to raise a packet of cigarettes to $40 (£23) in 2020. In the last six years, tough cigarette regulations have seen the number of smo...
15
Sep

As e-cigarettes have risen in popularity, UK researchers have argued that more people have quit smoking traditional tobacco. The British Medical Journal has scrupulously examined quit rates and smoking cessation in England from 2006 to 2015, and...
23
Aug

Plans to ban menthol cigarettes in 2020 as part of the Tobacco Products Directive have been cancelled after Britain voted to leave the European Union, according to reports. The TPD had plans to axe menthol cigarettes as their “pleasant fla...
09
Aug

With the exception of Norway, Brits pay more than anyone for a 20-pack at £9.35 – four times higher than the cheapest countries. The astronomical cost of 20 cigarettes compared with other European countries is the heavy tax levy on tob...