The troubles with kids these days … are not as common as they used to be. U.S. teens are having a lot less sex, they are drinking and using drugs less often, and they aren’t smoking as much, according a government survey of risky ...
Smokers in Australia could pay approximately $40 Australian dollars ($30) for a pack of cigarettes from 2020, under revenue-boosting budget measures announced Tuesday. The cost of cigarettes will rise 12.5 percent every year, starting from 2017, with a packet currently costing around AU$25, according ...
France published a decree on Tuesday that requires cigarette manufacturers to introduce plain packaging by the end of the year. Japan Tobacco International immediately said it would challenge the measure. The publication of the decree was the culmination of government efforts launched in 2014 ...
Japan Tobacco Inc.’s first-quarter operating profit declined 8.4 percent as domestic cigarette sales fell and the weakness of the Russian ruble hurt earnings from its biggest overseas market. The company also agreed to buy Logic Technology Development LLC, a U.S. e-cigarette brand, as it ...
Regulations often come from a counterintuitive convergence of pressures from two groups: merchants and moralists.
Japan Tobacco Inc. said Tuesday its international division, Japan Tobacco International, has acquired patents and trademarks related to the tobacco vaporization device business from U.S. company Ploom Inc. The value of the deal was not disclosed. Ploom will buy back the 27 percent equity ...
Until the tobacco prices went up in 2010, third-class cigarette sales were very low.
Japan’s smoking rate in 2014 fell below 20 percent for the first time since such statistics began being compiled in 1965, Japan Tobacco Inc. said on Wednesday. The rate dropped for the 19th consecutive year to stand at 19.7 percent, down 1.2 points from ...
The Kanagawa Prefectural Police on Wednesday sent reports to prosecutors on 33 adults on suspicion of allowing minors to drink and smoke.
Japan Tobacco Inc. is considering raising all of its cigarette prices in line with next April's consumption tax hike, according to informed sources.
Three major Japanese cigarette makers, including giant Japan Tobacco Inc., are in the final stages of deciding how they will handle the coming consumption tax hike, including the possibility they won’t raise their prices. Because it would be unrealistic to raise prices by less ...
Japan Tobacco Inc. plans to expand its range of smokeless tobacco products and is looking at tie-ups or acquisitions as consumers demand alternatives and regulations tighten worldwide. “There are many ways to enjoy tobacco, so it doesn’t necessarily have to be cigarettes,” Akira Saeki, ...
