Tobacco Industry NewsACTA2020-12-10T18:13:14+00:00 Tobacco Industry NewsCigarette sales ban to have big tax hit on South AfricaSeptember 7, 2021British American Tobacco sees South Africa failing to meet tobacco excise revenue targets after a lengthy ban on the sale of the products swelled illegal sales. The country will probably generate R11.5 billion ($791 million) in duties from cigarettes and related products in the year through March 2022, the company’s East & Southern Africa unit […]... Read more...USA: Proposed increases is tobacco taxes will hurt PA communities | OpinionAugust 26, 2021Congress is currently moving forward with aggressive policies that will significantly increase the federal tax on all tobacco products. This misguided policy won’t encourage smoking cessation, as it intends, but in fact it will cause more people to smoke, invite new criminal enterprises, and stoke racial division in our communities. Further, when you look at […]... Read more...Learning from COVID to tackle the tobacco epidemicAugust 25, 2021For the better part of two years, the attention of policymakers and health experts across Europe and North America has been focused on the battle against COVID. With vaccination campaigns cutting into hospitalization numbers and giving public health experts space to breathe, the World Health Organization is seeking to put another major global health effort […]... Read more...VPASA slams WHO’s comments branding e-cigarettes as ’harmful’August 19, 2021Johannesburg – The Vapour Products Association is concerned with how vaping has been described by the World Health Organization (WHO) in its latest report. And chief executive Asanda Gcoyi said labelling vaping as “harmful” was reckless. “The WHO, along with many other groups opposed to e-cigarettes and vaping, has once again demonstrated a lack of […]... Read more...BATNF Plans N2bn Investment to Boost Small Holder FarmingAugust 19, 2021The British American Tobacco Nigeria Foundation (BATNF) has announced plans to invest over N2 billion to support small holder farmers across the 36 States in the federation. The move, according to the foundation, is aimed at improving the lives of smallholder farmers and enabling them to move from subsistence to commercial agriculture to boost food […]... Read more...Tobacco giant Philip Morris raises bid for respiratory drugmakerAugust 10, 2021Tobacco giant Philip Morris has raised its bid to buy respiratory drugmaker Vectura to more than £1bn. Vectura makes inhaled medicines and devices to treat respiratory illnesses such as asthma, and counts Novartis and GSK among its customers. The Marlboro cigarette maker increased its offer to £1.65 ($2.29) per share after US private equity firm […]... Read more...
