Health warnings that are displayed on the front of cigarette packets in the UK are 'not up to the job', according to the British Heart Foundation. BHF has conducted a survey on smoking, which noted that only a 36% of teenagers in the UK ...
Tags: Cigarette Packs, Packaging
The tobacco giant exhibiting at the Labour Party conference in Brighton despite the party having already committed to backing standardised packaging for cigarettes. The Tobacco Retailer's Alliance has also taken a stand at the event, ...
Tags: Cigarette Packaging
The EU Parliamentary committee (ENVI) responsible for making recommendations on the revised proposed EU Tobacco Products Directive were due to vote on the proposals last Thursday (5 September). They also planned to ban slim cigarettes and ...
Israel-based medical device company Brainsway has received an investigational device exemption (IDE) from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to evaluate the efficacy of its Deep TMS device in multi-center smoking cessation study. ...
Tags: Smoking Cessation Study, Health, Medicine
AG education gets $2 million boost at Chico State Pesticide research gets $1 million boost in California Ethanol pits growers against each other Ingrid Newkirk wants people to light up and smoke in California restaurants. But not for what ...
Tags: Agriculture
Eight out of ten women in the UK agree that bright, colorful packaging tends to make products attractive to children aged under 18, according to new figures published by Cancer Research UK. The YouGov survey conducted for more than 2000 ...
Tags: Colorful Tobacco, Packaging
Environmentalists have released the 'What a Waste' report, calling for more effective action on and measurement of litter, at the start of Keep Australia Beautiful (KAB) week. "We think the KAB exercise has stalled and its National Litter ...
The world's second-biggest tobacco company, which started selling its Vype e-cigarette brand over the internet in Britain this week, intends to roll the business out to other European countries and the US, as well as on the high street. ...
Tags: E-Cigarette, E Cigarette, Cigarette
Packaging News sister magazine Independent Retail News has reported that the proposals from the EU Public Health Committee also include larger 75% health warnings on all tobacco packaging, the introduction of a standardised pack shape and ...
The “No Thank EU” campaign gives retailers and consumers the opportunity to register their opposition to the proposed regulations that include a ban on menthol cigarettes and 10-packs. The revised Tobacco Products Directive ...
Tags: EU Tobacco Directive, Smokers
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said on Friday (12 July) that a decision on plain packaging had been postponed in order to assess how a similar scheme was operating in Australia. 'Protect jobs' Former managing director of Weidenhammer UK ...
The Chinese government has been busy probing Western firms this week. On Monday, the country announced it would investigate EU wine dumping into the Chinese market, an action that could see prices hiked on imported wine this year. On ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Inspired by casual Italian style the Thomas Rath Trousers collection in Spring/Summer 2014 presents a bright display of casual chinos, well-groomed business styles and new-finish glamorous fabrics. Here Thomas Rath focuses on high-quality ...
Tags: Apparel
Ireland is all set to introduce plain cigarette packaging and uniform labeling and will become the first country in the European Union to ban branding on packages. All trademarks, logos, colors and graphics from tobacco products will be ...
Tags: Plain Tobacco Packaging, Packaging
A report in The Sun this morning, which the paper is claiming as an exclusive, claimed that the Prime Minister has been persuaded by the argument that so-called plain packaging legislation would damage the packaging industry. Cameron is ...