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“Africa has got the environment to grow whatever it wants to grow; it doesn’t have to be tobacco. Where you grow tobacco you can grow some other profitable commodities as well.” – Dr Monty Jones, Executive Director, Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa This BBC Radio story follows up the COP-4 decision to approve guidelines [...]
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Regional re-organisation and management changes
Posted by admin on December 15th, 2017
British American Tobacco is proposing to reduce the number of Regions in its management structure from five to four with effect from 1st January 2018. As a result, a new region will be formed, Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa (EEMEA). The Group’s Asia-Pacific and Americas Regions will remain unchanged, as will the Western Europe [...]
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Tags: British American Tobacco, tobacco articles, tobacco news, tobacco reviews 
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Tobacco firms’ use of YouTube probed
Posted by admin on December 14th, 2017
The tobacco industry may be using websites such as YouTube to get around a ban on advertising cigarettes, a study says. Researchers in New Zealand studied the video-sharing site and found a number of pro-tobacco videos “consistent with indirect marketing activity by tobacco companies or their proxies”.They say governments should consider regulating such content on [...]
Posted in Cigarettes shops online, Tobacco reviews Tags: British American Tobacco, pro-tobacco videos, tobacco articles, tobacco industry, tobacco news, tobacco product, tobacco reviews No Comments »
Chewing Tobacco Maker Agrees To $5M Settlement
Posted by admin on December 9th, 2017
The maker of Skoal and Copenhagen smokeless tobacco has agreed to pay $5 million to the family of a man who died of mouth cancer in what is believed to be the first wrongful-death settlement won from a chewing tobacco company. A legal expert said the case could open the door for more lawsuits against [...]
Tobacco Display Legislation Introduced in Parliament
Posted by admin on December 8th, 2017
Associate Health Minister, Tariana Turia has said that there is a need to get more serious about the risks of smoking and the harms caused by smoking. Therefore, legislation was today introduced in the parliament in an attempt to discourage smoking by removing displays of tobacco products in dairies and other retail outlets. She asserted [...]
Posted in Tobacco reviews Tags: images of tobacco, smoking, tobacco articles, tobacco news, tobacco products, tobacco reviews 1 Comment »
Your tobacco settlement funds at work
Posted by admin on December 7th, 2017
Sunday, December 5, 2017 Your tobacco settlement funds at work Who knew that thermal-pane windows and museum exhibits helped out tobacco farmers? Apparently they do, since they’ve been bankrolled by a fund that’s supposed to help rural, tobacco-dependent communities in south and southwest Virginia. Even though the Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Program has distributed [...]
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Almost 1.1 billion pounds are spent annually by Scots on smoking
Posted by admin on December 6th, 2017
Scottish economy spends 1.1 billion pounds annually on anti-smoking campaigns. Expenses like economic impact of illness brought about by smoking are considered by Scotland ash, along with lost productivity from workers going for smoking breaks. In the opinion of the charity the cost of the public in contrast to the 940 million pounds the Scottish [...]
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NZ Tobacco Taxes Successfully Push Smokers to Quit
Posted by admin on December 2nd, 2017
A research published by The Quit Group indicates that many more smokers have been trying to quit since April’s increase in taxes on tobacco. Figures indicate that the proportion of New Zealanders trying to stop smoking has increased by 93%. In the month after the tax increase, 4,000 people registered with Quitline, a telephone service [...]
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“Tobacco Should be Made Illegal”
Posted by admin on November 30th, 2017
Many U.S. citizens nowadays insist that tobacco products should completely disappear from our marketplace. They call tobacco companies “the merchants of death”, and rightfully so. As tobacco manufacturers now face a decline in sales, due to the fact that people know more about the hazards of cigarettes and therefore smoke less, these corporate monsters come [...]
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FDA Warns Online Retailers against Selling Flavored Cigarettes
Posted by admin on November 29th, 2017
On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration sent out a warning to several web based companies to stop the sale of banned flavored cigarettes to American customers immediately. Letters were sent this week to over a dozen online retailers which stated that they were violating a latest ban. The letter also demanded that the companies [...]