No image available
/ 6 September 2013
Even though traces of cancer-causing chemicals have been found, the real killer – tobacco – is absent.
Plain packaging makes smokers think their cigarettes have deteriorated in quality and it leaves them less satisfied, research has found.
The state has pulled its funding of studies on the disease, retarding progress on a cure.
The European Union plans to ban menthol cigarettes and force tobacco firms to print large health warnings covering 75% of packaging.
A Cigarette manufacturer in SA could face a fine of up to R1-million for possibly violating regulations that govern the marketing of cigarettes.
British American Tobacco warns it could choke from the onslaught of rules and grey imports, writes Lisa Steyn
The world’s biggest tobacco company have gone to court in order to prevent the Australian government from forcing them to sell in unbranded packets.
No image available
/ 9 December 2009
Cigarette pack warnings that remind smokers of the consequences may actually make them smoke more as a way to cope with the inevitability of death.
British American Tobacco (BAT) bought a majority stake in a top Indonesian cigarette firm on Wednesday.
Two men passing off cartons of stones as cigarettes to spaza-shop owners have been arrested in Tembisa, East Rand police said on Thursday.
No image available
/ 6 September 2008
The Marlboro cigarettes empire Altria is in talks to buy the United States’s biggest maker of chewing tobacco.
We might think we’re big in mining, synthetic fuels, cellphones or banking, but our biggest listed company on the JSE soon will be in tobacco.
A Kenyan cigarette maker on Friday filed a suit against a new ban on smoking in public places.
Chewing tobacco and snuff are less dangerous than cigarettes but the smokeless products still raise the risk of oral cancer by 80%, says the WHO.