Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. has announced a new comprehensive method that uses triple quadrupole GC-MS/MS to achieve lower levels of detection of volatile nitrosamines (VNA) in tobacco. The new method allows environmental laboratories, tobacco companies...

Philip Morris and Fortune Tobacco Corp. said it is open to a ‘reasonable increase’ in sin taxes but opposed proposals, including those of the Department of Finance, on ‘indexing’ tobacco taxes to inflation. “We’re not opposed to a reasonable increase...

The Thailand Tobacco Monopoly (TTM) is reconsidering its plan to build a second tobacco production plant worth 20 billion baht at Rojana Industrial Park in Ayutthaya for fear of inundation, says Deputy Finance Minister Boonsong Teriyapirom. Mr Boonsong,...

The Fort Dodge Police Department has taken a pledge to make sure tobacco doesn't get in the hands of the city's youths. The Iowa Pledge, which is a partnership with the Iowa Alcoholic Beverages Division, aims both to educate local retailers on what could...

Deputies in Walker County are looking for a man who pulled off a smash and grab at at convenience store. It happened early Sunday morning in Flintstone, Georgia and two things stick out about this crime: a large rock used to smash a front window and the...

When people talk about tobacco and its negative effects, most think only of lung cancer and perhaps, red lips and blackened fingers. But tobacco causes a lot more harm to the body than that. Worse still, tobacco affects not only those who intentionally...

Unfortunately, this simply isn’t true. Consumer tobacco products — regardless of how they are packaged — are loaded with harmful chemicals linked to oral and lung cancer as well as chronic respiratory and cardiovascular health problems. Smokeless tobacco...

Perhaps the most drastic changes among the tobacco cooperatives has been made by the Burley Stabilization Corporation (BSC), which served Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia. • In 2010, it moved its headquarters 200 miles to get closer to its primary...

Minnesota Management and Budget has successfully completed the sale of tobacco revenue bonds that played a key role in the budget fix that ended the state’s historic government shutdown this past summer. The Tobacco Securitization Authority sold $757...