Tobacco
Indonesia to keep current excise tax rates for tobacco products in 2025
It will consider other policies to try to discourage smoking, including changes in retail prices
Indonesia raises smoking age limit, will curb cigarette advertising
INDONESIA raised the minimum age limit for purchasing cigarettes to 21 from 18 as part of a series of changes to health regulations intended to curb the deadly habit in a country with one of the world...
New Zealand set to scrap world-first tobacco ban
NEW Zealand will repeal on Tuesday a world-first law banning tobacco sales for future generations, the government said, even while researchers and campaigners warned of the risk that people could die ...
EC World Reit secures renewal for one of two leases from China Tobacco
PART of EC World Real Estate Investment Trust’s (EC World Reit) Hengde Logistics warehouse property in Hangzhou will remain occupied by its existing tenant, China Tobacco.
Australia targets Big Tobacco in crackdown on vaping
AUSTRALIA announced a sweeping crackdown on vaping Tuesday, accusing tobacco companies of hooking the next “generation of nicotine addicts” by deliberately targeting teenagers.
BAT Singapore pleads guilty to conspiracy over N Korea sanctions; parent to pay US$635 million to US
CIGARETTE maker British American Tobacco (BAT) agreed to pay US$635.2 million to US authorities to resolve investigations into sanctions violations for selling products in North Korea and misleading b...
Budget 2023: Tobacco excise duty increased by 15%
THE Singapore government is implementing a 15 per cent increase in tobacco excise duty across all tobacco products.
New Zealand stubs out smoking, passing wide-ranging tobacco ban
NEW Zealand will phase in a near-total tobacco ban from next year, prohibiting anyone born after 2008 from ever purchasing cigarettes and reducing the amount of nicotine in products sold in the meanti...
Malaysia may join New Zealand in effort to ban some tobacco sales
MALAYSIA is considering a ban on smoking and the sale of all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, to people born after 2007, joining New Zealand lawmakers in a once-unheard of move against one of...
Big tobacco’s environmental impact is ‘devastating’: WHO
THE tobacco industry is a far greater threat than many realise as it is one of the world’s biggest polluters, from leaving mountains of waste to driving global warming, the WHO charged Tuesday. The W...
