Three major tobacco companies in the US have dropped their lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over pre-approval for modifications in labelling. The FDA has previously regulated that the tobacco companies required to ...
The UK's second biggest cigarette company Japan Tobacco International (JTI) has joined the fray, filing a lawsuit against the government's mandate for plain packaging. JTI's suit follows similar actions taken by Philip Morris ...
Suntory Beverage & Food (SBF) has signed a basic agreement to buy beverage business of Japan Tobacco (JT) for $1.2bn. According to SBF, the deal also includes acquisition of canned coffee brand Roots and peach-flavored drink brand Momono ...
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Philip Morris International (PMI) and British American Tobacco have sued the UK Government over plain packaging regulations for cigarettes. In their lawsuits filed in the English High Court, the twocompanies claim that the new ...
Tags: Plain Packaging, Tobacco Packaging
Making a case against plain cigarette packaging in the Commercial Court, Japan Tobacco International (JTI) Ireland, a distributor of well-known tobacco brands, has argued that being a member of the European Union (EU), Ireland can not ...
Britain’s MPs have voted in favour of the introduction of plain standardised cigarette packaging from May 2016. Once implemented, England will be the third country to introduce such a law after Australia and Ireland. While this ...
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Cigarette giant Japan Tobacco International (JTI) has threatened to take legal action against the Irish government if it doesn't stop work over plain packaging legislation for cigarettes. JTI Ireland, one of the biggest producers of ...
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The Chantler Review found it was 'very likely' that unbranded plain packed tobacco would reduce both the uptake and prevalence of smoking. British American Tobacco has strongly hinted at a legal battle, stating: "We believe plain ...
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Japan Tobacco Inc. is relaunching its Zerostyle Blue Mint and Zerostyle Bitter Leaf smokeless tobacco products. The Zerostyle product line started life in 2010 as a non-lit, cigarette-shaped product, or "pipe," containing a ...
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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. ...
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Japan Tobacco (JT), Keryx Biopharmaceuticals' Japanese partner, has filed a new drug application (NDA) for the marketing approval of Ferric Citrate (Zerenex) in Japan for the treatment of hyperphosphatemia in chronic kidney disease (CKD) ...
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The idea of introducing plain packaging for cigarettes is likely to lead to a rise in youth smoking, according to a report by Adam Smith Institute, a free market think-tank. The report insists that the replacement of all brand packaging ...
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Australian High Court has dismissed claims by tobacco companies that the government illegally seized their intellectual property by barring the display of trademarks on packs and gave its approval to go ahead with a ban on color cigarette ...
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