Japan Tobacco Inc. on Monday reported a 67% jump in net profit for the fiscal third quarter from a year earlier, when domestic tobacco sales were hit by a tax hike. The world's third-largest tobacco company by sales volume after Philip Morris International Inc. (PM) and British American Tobacco PLC
02.7.2012| Tobacco News | Tobacconist
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A smoky haze hung in the air as dance music blared and small groups sat around large glass pipes filled with hookah tobacco during the official grand opening of Six Lounge Hookah & Smoke Shop on Saturday night. The lounge, located at 400 Albert Ave., opened for business Jan. 23, but held its gr
02.6.2012| Tobacco News | Tobacconist
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A combination of anti-smoking regulation, higher taxes and a price war precipitated a double-digit fall in cigarette volumes in the key Spanish market during the first quarter for Imperial Tobacco. The FTSE 100 company, which owns Davidoff and Gauloises brands, declined to specify the extent of t
02.3.2012| Tobacco News | Tobacconist
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A Pakistan tobacco company has started selling its brand of cigarettes without printing the mandatory pictorial health warning on each pack, reflecting a serious violation law and the said manufacturer be subjected to imprisonment of up to 2 years under Section 4 of the Cigarette (Printing of Warnin
02.2.2012| Tobacco News | Tobacconist
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The Imperial Tobacco Group saw stick equivalent (cigarettes and roll-your-own) volumes during the three months to the end of last year fall by seven per cent on those of October-December 2010. As part of a management interim statement issued ahead of its annual general meeting today, Imperial rep
02.1.2012| Tobacco News | Tobacconist
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Illinois lawmakers are considering loosening the Smoke Free Illinois Act, which prohibits smoking in all indoor public places since being passed in 2008. If the ban is loosened, individual bars, restaurants, and other facilities hosting events with tobacco products will be able to apply for a smo
01.30.2012| Tobacco News | Tobacconist
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Filtrona Filter Products has announced the launch of Smooth Core Recess, a recess filter containing precisely positioned activated carbon. Smooth Core Recess is part of Filtrona’s Advantage Range. Chris Franklin, innovation and new business development director, described the Smooth Core Rec
01.27.2012| Tobacco News | Tobacconist
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House Bill 160, introduced by Delegate Patrick A. Hope (D-Arlington), would have increased Virginia’s tax on cigarettes from 30 cents per pack to $1.45 per pack – a 383 percent boost. That increase would have brought Virginia’s tax up to the national average. The bill also called for raisin
01.25.2012| Tobacco News | Tobacconist
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Australia's government has lambasted British and American Tobacco for using the image of a kangaroo on packets of cigarettes sold in Europe, ramping up hostilities with Big Tobacco ahead of a legal battle over plain-packaging laws. Attorney-General Nicola Roxon, who as Health Minister led the dri
01.13.2012| Tobacco News | Tobacconist
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Researchers from University of California San Francisco (UCSF) said that they have found that hundreds of additives, including menthol, should be eliminated from cigarettes on public health grounds. "When we conducted our own analysis by studying additives per cigarette-following Philip Morris' o
01.9.2012| Tobacco News | Tobacconist
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