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Ban Flavoured Vapes: WHO Urges Countries To Use Tobacco-Style Controls
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday urged governments to treat e-cigarettes similarly to tobacco and ban all flavours, threatening cigarette companies' bets on smoking alternatives.
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Spain To Make Tobacco Companies Pay For Cleaning Up Cigarette Butts
Cigarette manufacturers will also be required to remind and educate consumers not to throw away butts in public areas.
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This Company Is Giving Non-Smoking Employees 6 Extra Vacation Days
A company in Japan is giving employees who don't smoke an extra six days off to make up for smokers' cigarette breaks.
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Impending Product Launch Was Factor In Centre's Move To Ban E-Cigarette
The impending launch of Juul e-cigarettes in India was a factor in the government's decision to ban the sale of vaping products, a top government lawyer said on Tuesday while defending the move in a Kolkata court. Last month, India banned the sale and import of electronic cigarettes, warning of a vaping "epidemic" among young people and dashing pla...
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Electronic Cigarettes "Great Health Risk": Centre Bans Sales And Imports
The health ministry called on Tuesday for stopping the sale or import of electronic cigarettes and heat-not-burn tobacco devices that companies like Philip Morris International Inc were planning to launch in the country.
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From Electric Vehicles to Cigarettes: How Bengaluru's Log 9 Wants to Use Graphene to Disrupt Everything
This Bengaluru-based company believes that it has a solution to help India go all-electric, but will it work?
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Not a Proxy For my father, Says Lalit Modi's Son Ruchir Ahead of Cricket Administration Debut
Modi jr is the front runner in the race to be the next president of Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA), a post held by his father, who faces a life ban from India's cricket board.
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Cigarette Companies Implement 85 Per Cent Pictorial Health Warnings
International cigarette companies including ITC and Godfrey Phillips have implemented the rule requiring 85 per cent pictorial warning, they said today.
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Place Bigger Warnings On Cigarette Packs Immediately, Says Top Court
Tobacco companies, which have been opposing the government order to place bigger pictorial warnings on packs of tobacco products, have been told by the Supreme Court to do so without any further delay.
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Cigarette Factories Close Over New Pictorial Warnings On Packs
As bigger pictorial warnings on tobacco products became mandatory from today, cigarette companies announced they were stopping production, citing "ambiguity" on the issue. The move will result in an estimated loss of Rs 350 crore a day in turnover for the tobacco industry.
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Australia Welcomes Plain Cigarette Packaging 'Win'
An Australian law requiring cigarettes to be sold in plain packaging has received a boost after an international tribunal said it would not hear a tobacco company's legal challenge.
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No Indian Study Links Cigarettes With Cancer, Says BJP Chief of Parliamentary Committee
India will miss the deadline for a major initiative to dissuade smoking. Tobacco companies had been told late last year that starting April 1, they would have to stamp health warnings across 85 per cent of the surface of cigarette packets from next year.
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Tobacco Packets to Devote 85 Per Cent Space to Warnings
India on Wednesday made it mandatory for tobacco companies to devote 85 per cent space on packets of cigarettes and other tobacco products to warnings against the ill effects of tobacco consumption.
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RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company Vows to Fight $23.6 Billion in Damages
The No. 2 US cigarette maker is vowing to fight a jury verdict of $23.6 billion in punitive damages in a lawsuit filed by the widow of a longtime smoker who died of lung cancer.
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Indonesia Rolls Out Graphic Health Warnings on Cigarette Packs
Cigarette manufacturers in Indonesia, one of the world's biggest tobacco markets, began printing graphic health warnings on packets on Tuesday, but they have yet to appear in shops and the companies involved do not seem too worried about plunging sales.
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Ban Flavoured Vapes: WHO Urges Countries To Use Tobacco-Style Controls
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday urged governments to treat e-cigarettes similarly to tobacco and ban all flavours, threatening cigarette companies' bets on smoking alternatives.
-
Spain To Make Tobacco Companies Pay For Cleaning Up Cigarette Butts
Cigarette manufacturers will also be required to remind and educate consumers not to throw away butts in public areas.
-
This Company Is Giving Non-Smoking Employees 6 Extra Vacation Days
A company in Japan is giving employees who don't smoke an extra six days off to make up for smokers' cigarette breaks.
-
Impending Product Launch Was Factor In Centre's Move To Ban E-Cigarette
The impending launch of Juul e-cigarettes in India was a factor in the government's decision to ban the sale of vaping products, a top government lawyer said on Tuesday while defending the move in a Kolkata court. Last month, India banned the sale and import of electronic cigarettes, warning of a vaping "epidemic" among young people and dashing pla...
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Electronic Cigarettes "Great Health Risk": Centre Bans Sales And Imports
The health ministry called on Tuesday for stopping the sale or import of electronic cigarettes and heat-not-burn tobacco devices that companies like Philip Morris International Inc were planning to launch in the country.
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From Electric Vehicles to Cigarettes: How Bengaluru's Log 9 Wants to Use Graphene to Disrupt Everything
This Bengaluru-based company believes that it has a solution to help India go all-electric, but will it work?
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Not a Proxy For my father, Says Lalit Modi's Son Ruchir Ahead of Cricket Administration Debut
Modi jr is the front runner in the race to be the next president of Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA), a post held by his father, who faces a life ban from India's cricket board.
-
Cigarette Companies Implement 85 Per Cent Pictorial Health Warnings
International cigarette companies including ITC and Godfrey Phillips have implemented the rule requiring 85 per cent pictorial warning, they said today.
-
Place Bigger Warnings On Cigarette Packs Immediately, Says Top Court
Tobacco companies, which have been opposing the government order to place bigger pictorial warnings on packs of tobacco products, have been told by the Supreme Court to do so without any further delay.
-
Cigarette Factories Close Over New Pictorial Warnings On Packs
As bigger pictorial warnings on tobacco products became mandatory from today, cigarette companies announced they were stopping production, citing "ambiguity" on the issue. The move will result in an estimated loss of Rs 350 crore a day in turnover for the tobacco industry.
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Australia Welcomes Plain Cigarette Packaging 'Win'
An Australian law requiring cigarettes to be sold in plain packaging has received a boost after an international tribunal said it would not hear a tobacco company's legal challenge.
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No Indian Study Links Cigarettes With Cancer, Says BJP Chief of Parliamentary Committee
India will miss the deadline for a major initiative to dissuade smoking. Tobacco companies had been told late last year that starting April 1, they would have to stamp health warnings across 85 per cent of the surface of cigarette packets from next year.
-
Tobacco Packets to Devote 85 Per Cent Space to Warnings
India on Wednesday made it mandatory for tobacco companies to devote 85 per cent space on packets of cigarettes and other tobacco products to warnings against the ill effects of tobacco consumption.
-
RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company Vows to Fight $23.6 Billion in Damages
The No. 2 US cigarette maker is vowing to fight a jury verdict of $23.6 billion in punitive damages in a lawsuit filed by the widow of a longtime smoker who died of lung cancer.
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Indonesia Rolls Out Graphic Health Warnings on Cigarette Packs
Cigarette manufacturers in Indonesia, one of the world's biggest tobacco markets, began printing graphic health warnings on packets on Tuesday, but they have yet to appear in shops and the companies involved do not seem too worried about plunging sales.
