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• Imperial Tobacco Sets an $812 Million Share Repurchase Agreement

  Published on May 11th, 2012 00:00

  Imperial Tobacco, the world’s fourth cigarette manufacturer, set an $812 million share repurchase agreement and stated that it faced a return to sales growth as the West and Gauloises cigarette producer placed many of its 2011 difficulties behind it. The British tobacco giant, which sells over 340 billion cigarettes each year, ...

• England Officially Banned Cigarette Displays in Shops

  Published on April 27th, 2012 00:00

  Cigarette packages will disappear from supermarket shelves in England on Monday and also should be hidden out of sight. The given regulation directed at decreasing the temptation to cigarette smoke for teenagers and young people, will demand all large shops to remove all displays from the point of sale. Anti-tobacco activists stat ...

• Japan Tobacco International Expands its Business in Georgia

  Published on April 12th, 2012 00:00

  Japan Tobacco International (JTI) has opened its office in Georgia especially for Caucasus region. Tobacco market in that region is developing quickly and the company requires a management group to be near to the market, according to Martin Braddock, JTI Regional President for CIS and Adriatic Region. “We had a few reasons for ...

• Philippine’s International Tobacco Fair was Criticized by WHO

  Published on March 27th, 2012 00:00

  A great number of anti-smoking advocates have picketed a leading international tobacco fair in the Philippines, a country that has fallen under notice as Western nations call for restrictions and taxes. A cigarette package costs here approximately 50 cents, and about one in three Filipinos 15 years or older light up, according to ...

• British American Tobacco Faces 11% Dividend Increase

  Published on March 7th, 2012 00:00

  Big Tobacco currently controls about 75% of the world’s cigarette market. The exception includes only China, as this giant tobacco market is controlled by the state-owned China National Tobacco Company. British American Tobacco (BAT) is the world’s second cigarette manufacturer and the largest in UK, with a market share ...

• Lawsuits over Cigarette Health Graphic Warnings are Held in Several US States

  Published on January 4th, 2012 06:37

  Various states and some U.S. regions are considering on a lawsuit over advised health graphic warnings that include images of corpse, diseased lungs, stating the federal government should be permitted to demand the warnings for the addictive products. Several months ago, a U.S. District Court judge met the request by some of the nation&r ...

• British American Tobacco Threatening Namibian Lawmakers

  Published on December 2nd, 2011 03:09

  Namibia’s largest seller of tobacco products, British American Tobacco (BAT), is threatening Namibian lawmakers with legal actions unless amendments are made to the new Tobacco Products Control Act of 2010. BAT is very angry and declares that the Act advised by Minister of Health and Social Services, Dr. Richard Kamwi, has a lawful ...

• Japan Tobacco Employees Involved in Cigarette Smuggling

  Published on November 14th, 2011 10:06

  Japan Tobacco International (JTI) executives were on the alert as its wholesalers engaged in extending tobacco smuggling in several countries, according to some e-mails, record conversations of many workers realized by investigators. When the company’s anti-smuggling organization undertook severe measures on smuggling routes and b ...

• Big Tobacco is Spending More Money on Smokeless Products

  Published on September 14th, 2011 08:13

  The giant tobacco companies are spending less money on tobacco promotion and advertising and more on promoting smokeless tobacco products, according to the recent statistics. Tobacco companies are looking more to cigarette alternatives as smokeless tobacco products for future sales increase as tax growth, smoking bans and thus making th ...

• Cigarette Packaging Continues to Attract People

  Published on July 14th, 2011 08:24

  Clever tobacco enterprises are using color and other elements in order to outwit new U.S. regulations that take severe measures on cigarette packages, researches declare. Starting from June, 2010 tobacco enterprises are banned from using such terms as “light”, “mild” or “low”, which belittle the hazar ...