Tag: tobacco

• Friday, May 31st 2019 - 09:39 UTC

  World No Tobacco Day: the damage tobacco causes to lung health

  

  On World No Tobacco Day (31 May), the World Health Organization is highlighting the damage tobacco causes to lung health: over 40% of all tobacco-related deaths are from lung diseases like cancer, chronic respiratory diseases and tuberculosis. WHO is calling on countries and partners to increase action to protect people from exposure to tobacco.

• Friday, May 31st 2019 - 09:20 UTC

  Brazil 's Attorney General sues Philips Morris and British American Tobacco

  

  Brazil is following the U.S. and Canada in taking on Big Tobacco, becoming the first country in Latin America to sue cigarette makers over the financial toll of smoking. Brazil’s attorney general’s office, known as the AGU, last week sued the two largest cigarette manufacturers in the country, Phillip Morris International and British American Tobacco, to cover the costs of treating patients with 26 tobacco-related diseases over the past five years.

• Tuesday, March 5th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Trump tightens trade embargo on Cuba; retaliation for Havana's support for Maduro

  

  The Trump administration announced Monday that it is tightening the six-decade trade embargo on Cuba by allowing lawsuits against Cuban companies using properties confiscated after its 1959 revolution.

• Thursday, February 7th 2019 - 10:05 UTC

  Manufacturing in Argentina was 5% down during 2018

  

  Manufacturing performance in Argentina during 2018 was one of the worst since the 2001/02 collapse and melting of the country's economy according to the latest release from the stats office, Indec. Manufacturing dropped 14.7% in December compared to the same month in 2017, ending 2018 with an overall decrease of 5%.

• Friday, January 4th 2019 - 08:54 UTC

  Argentine industrial production plummeted 13.3% last October

  

  Argentina industrial production plummeted 13.3% in October 2018 after plunging 6.8% in the previous month. It was the seventh straight drop and the sharpest decline since June 2002, as all categories fell excluding tobacco (+1.5%) and basic metals (+4.1%).

• Friday, June 29th 2018 - 08:21 UTC

  The Protocol x Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products is live

  

  On 27 June 2018, the conditions for the entry into force of the first legally binding instrument adopted under the WHO FCTC were met, paving the way to eliminate illicit trade of tobacco products

• Wednesday, July 5th 2017 - 01:34 UTC

  Tobacco 2017 harvest a boost for Cuban economy

  

  Cuba's economy is to receive a significant boost from one of its main industries, as tobacco leaf production reached 19,000 tonnes this year, the best harvest of the last decade, it was announced Tuesday in Havana. The figure represents success, but it is still far below the 30,000 tonnes from early estimates.

• Friday, April 17th 2015 - 03:16 UTC

  World Medical Association supports growing moves for plain tobacco packaging

  

  The World Medical Association has supported the increasing number of countries planning to introduce plain packaging of tobacco products, including Australia and France. This week it joined the Norwegian Medical Association in supporting proposals to introduce plain packaging in Norway.

• Monday, October 20th 2014 - 07:30 UTC

  WHO admits full-scale battle with tobacco industry, which appeals to 'devious channels'

  

  The sixth session of the Conference of the parties (COP6) to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) concluded in Moscow. Several landmark decisions were adopted in the course of the six-day session, regarded as one of the most successful in the WHO FCTC’s history.

• Wednesday, August 13th 2014 - 06:41 UTC

  Philip Morris prepared to sue the UK over plain packaging of cigarettes

  

  Philip Morris International, the world's largest tobacco company, is prepared to sue the British government should it implement a law requiring plain packaging of cigarettes, a document showed.