Smokers alter buying habits: Pipe tobacco, roll-your-own machines save on taxes
Jim Petro spent about 15 minutes inside New Middletown Tobacco one recent evening, depositing pipe tobacco and tubes he bought into a $30,000 rolling machine and emerging with a carton's worth of cigarettes.
Class Action Lawsuit Targets Indonesian Government, Tobacco Companies
JAKARTA - In Indonesia, one of the world’s last bastions of unrestricted cigarette smoking, one out of five people smoke. Even children are picking up the habit. The country’s child protection commission is now planning a class action lawsuit against the government and tobacco companies for failing to protect kids from getting hooked. Eight-year-old Aldi Ilham from Sukabumi, West Java, first ...
Tobacco company knew smoking was deadly in the ’80s, memo shows
An internal memo showing that Imperial Tobacco has known cigarettes to be deadly and addictive since the 1980s has been entered into evidence in Quebec’s class-action lawsuit, despite objections from the company’s lawyers.
South Australia wants to burn big tobacco
SOUTH Australia is spearheading a push towards a national lawsuit against major tobacco companies to recoup billions of dollars spent on caring for sick smokers.
Tobacco companies launch legal battle over warning labels
Two Canadian companies are claiming that the regulations, which require 75 per cent of packages to be filled with health warnings, infringe on their right to freedom of expression
Tobacco companies launch legal battle over health warnings on packages, sighting freedom of expression
Two Canadian companies are claiming that the regulations, which require 75 per cent of packages to be filled with health warnings, infringe on their right to freedom of expression
1980s 'safer cigarette' research opposed: former executive
A former president of Imperial Tobacco Canada says the company's largest shareholder attempted to stop an effort to develop safer cigarettes.
Tobacco companies launch legal battle over health warnings on packages
Two Canadian companies are claiming that the regulations, which require 75 per cent of packages to be filled with health warnings, infringe on their right to freedom of expression
RI city delays enforcement of tobacco rules again
Lawyers for the city of Providence, several tobacco companies and others have agreed in federal court to another delay in the enforcement of new tobacco ordinances that are the subject of a federal lawsuit.