Tobacco

It will consider other policies to try to discourage smoking, including changes in retail prices

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 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 ...

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 announced a sweeping crackdown on vaping Tuesday, accusing tobacco companies of hooking the next “generation of nicotine addicts” by deliberately targeting teenagers.

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...

THE Singapore government is implementing a 15 per cent increase in tobacco excise duty across all tobacco products.

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 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...