Tag: Big Tobacco
Tobacco Stocks Jump Following FDA Warning to E-Cig Companies
Last Wednesday, the FDA announced that it issued over a 1,000 warning letters to U.S. retailers and manufacturers of e-cigarettes, in what the agency...
Malaysia: Big Tobacco Says That Cigarette Tax Will Boost Illegal Trade
As of Aug 29th, a 10% tax has been implemented on cigarettes, which will naturally cause existing prices to increase. In response to this,...
Big Tobacco Accused of Paying Influencers to Advertise Cigarettes
The findings were published online and detailed in a petition sent to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), by nine leading public health and...
New Research Suggests that Big Tobacco Facilitates Tobacco Smuggling
The studies which were published in the BMJ journal, Tobacco Control, and supported by grants from Cancer Research UK, have indicated that besides the...
Tobacco Companies’ Websites to Feature Anti-Smoking Warnings
The United States had been lagging behind other countries where it comes to smoking related warnings. In fact, the US Food and Drug Administration...
ACS Report: Big Tobacco is Targeting Emerging Markets
The report was co-authored by American Cancer Society (ACS) and Vital Strategies, and released at the 17th World Congress on Tobacco OR Health in...
Could Big Tobacco Play a Part in Ending The Smoking Epidemic?
This week, about 3,000 anti-tobacco health and policy experts are expected to attend the 17th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, happening between the...
BAT agrees to pay $49 billion to take over Reynolds
After being in discussion for months, British American Tobacco (BAT), and Reynolds American, have agreed on a price for the merger that will create...
