Opportunities in the Tobacco Market
In the light of declining cigarette sales in many mature markets, and the only regional growth areas of the future being Asia and Middle East/Africa, the tobacco multinationals are left with only a...
View ArticleModified Risk – the Big Tobacco Issue for the Next Decade
The FDA is being called upon to make a pronouncement on whether certain tobacco products, such as smokeless can be officially designated reduced risk. This will require a veritable judgment of Solomon....
View ArticleNew Tobacco Research – What is it Telling Us?
Euromonitor International’s latest global tobacco market research spanning 2011-2016 shows that growing smoking populations in China and other large-population developing markets, plus the pricing...
View ArticleRYO and the New Age of Total Tobacco
The appeal of RYO (roll-your-own) tobacco is as a lower cost, self-rolled alternative to cigarettes. A new global briefing by Euromonitor International report quantifies the price advantage and...
View ArticleNudge Unit Favours E-cigarette Approach to Stopping Smoking
The UK Government’s Cabinet Office’s Behavioural Insight Team, also known as the Nudge Unit, wants to persuade smokers, who are disinclined to give up the habit, to manage their nicotine addiction in a...
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Fighting Illicit Trade in Tobacco with Technology: Does it Work?
Governments, the WHO, the FCTC, OLAF and the tobacco industry are making the biggest concerted effort ever to control and reduce the practice of illicit trade in tobacco, which covers cigarette...
View ArticleTobacco, the EU and Brexit
The UK has decided by referendum to leave the EU (Brexit), a prime minister (David Cameron), has resigned and a new prime minister (Theresa May) is about to appoint her first cabinet. Meanwhile, a...
View ArticleImperial Tobacco Follows the Well Trodden Path to China
Britain’s Imperial Brands has formed a joint venture with state-owned China National Tobacco (CNTC) following in the footsteps of PMI and BAT pursuing a piece of the world’s largest cigarette market...
View ArticlePlain Cigarette Packaging and the Law – Will it Work?
The tobacco companies are launching legal challenges against the Australian government’s plain packaging legislation and an EU committee has raised trade issues though there seems little chance that...
View ArticleTar in Cigarettes – the Paradox Continues
Lowering tar content in cigarettes was one of the original reduced harm concepts in the tobacco market, with new filter technology enabling lower tar delivery. Although the concept of ‘light’ and...
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