Australia: Tobacco Firms Find New Marketing Platform

Scores of smartphone applications are promoting a pro-smoking message, from brands to games, according to a study published in the health journal Tobacco Control.

• Companies Fail To Regulate Pro-Smoking Content In Smartphone Apps
• Researchers Reveal Pro-smoking Apps
• Smartphone Apps Push Pro-smoking Message: Study
• Australia: Concerns Raised over Pro-smoking Phone Apps
• Smoking Apps Could be Breaking Anti-tobacco Advertising Laws

EU: New Health Warning over Tobacco Policy

The EU’s revised Tobacco Products Directive – which was set to place substantial new restrictions on tobacco companies’ promotion of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco, including banning electronic...

• European Tobacco-Related Payment Probe Widens
• Belgium: Anti-smoking Campaigners Accuse Tobacco Lobby after Office Break-in
• Europe, Malta: Dalli Had Two Meetings with Tobacco Lobbyists
• EU Tobacco Products Directive Review to Proceed
• Mixed Reaction to EU Commissioner Resignation
• EU: Dalli Denies Wrongdoing over EU Tobacco

Russia: Anti-tobacco Bill to be Considered in December

The first reading of the anti-tobacco bill in the State Duma will be held in December, says First Deputy Chairman of the Health Committee of the State Duma Nikolai Gerasimenko. However, Gerasimenk...

• Russia Faces Battle over Anti-smoking Bill
• Russia Launches Anti-smoking Crackdown
• Russia FinMin Sees 10 pct Alcohol, Tobacco Tax Hikes from 2016
• Russia: Medvedev Threatens Smokers: These Tobacco Laws are
• Russia: Cigarette Makers Wage Final Battle Against Russian Crackdown (Moscow)
• Russia: Cigarette Prices May Rise 400 Percent

BAT Explores Alternatives As Cigarette Market Dips

BRITISH American Tobacco (BAT), the JSE's largest listing with a market capitalisation of R878bn, is investing ￡100m to develop a series of smoking alternatives as tobacco bans and higher taxes per...

• India, Korea - South: Growers Demand Alternative to Tobacco Before Cut in Crop Area
• Sudan: Tobacco Farmers Ask Khartoum for Alternative Livelihood
• Phillipines: P165-M Alternative Livelihood Project Targets Tobacco Farmers
• Pakistan: Swabi Growers Seek Sustainable Alternative to Tobacco Crop
• Philippines: Ilocano Farmers Asked to Plant Alternative Cash Crop to Virginia Tobaccos
• Bulgarians in Rhodope Mountains Plant Hazel Trees as Alternative to Potatoes And Tobacco, Says Expert

Big Tobacco Braces for Packaging Ban

Cigarette makers are bracing for a potential drop in demand and a fierce price war, after Big Tobacco failed to overturn an Australian law last month calling for plain wrapping on their products.

• Australia: Imperial Tobacco's Plain Packaging 'The Ultimate Sick Joke'
• India Mulls Plain Packaging for Cigarettes
• Australia: Tobacco Companies Hit out at Australian High Court Decision on Plain Packaging
• New Zealand: Ministers Say Anti-plain Packaging Ads A Waste of Money
• Tobacco Firms Battle Plain Packaging in NZ
• Australia: Plain Packaging Plays into Hands of Criminals