13 June 2022 By Irene Reyes In the May edition of the Tobacco Reporter, one of its editors, George Gay, in an article on tobacco and ENDS products, arguing shared responsibility among regulators, manufacturers, and consumers in minimizing the environmental impact of these products. The author pointed out the lack of response from the industry to deal …
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30 May 2022 Philip Morris International (PMI) at its recent annual shareholders meeting recorded a net revenue of $31.4 billion in 2021. While steering the attention of its shareholders to its non-combustible business, cigarettes remain its core business as PMI shipped about 625 billion sticks which make up more than 70% of its revenue, amounting to US$22 billion. …
2 May 2022 UK company, British American Tobacco (BAT) had its annual shareholders’ meeting on 28 April where it celebrated its GBP 10.23 billion (USD 12.87 billion) profits for 2021 and chartered its way forward to sell more tobacco products. BAT’s overall strategy is to sell more cigarettes to be able to help reduce harm …
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27 January 2022 In 2021, a new company, DARE (Datametrics Research and Information Centre Sdn Bhd) emerged in Malaysia pushing harm reduction in the media and making a case to “embrace” e-cigarettes. Located in upmarket Kuala Lumpur, it claims to be a think tank that performs “data gathering, strategic analysis and advocacy platform for businesses and …
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10 January 2022 Big Tobacco has been lobbying ambassadors to help speak up for its business and also engaging ambassadors of a different kind – brand ambassadors – to promote its products to escape being penalized by tobacco control laws. In 2020, the Japanese Ambassador to Malaysia endorsed the handing over of vehicles to the …
2021 has been another chaotic year as the COVID-19 pandemic lingered and the tobacco industry continued to exploit the pandemic to undermine governments’ efforts in tobacco control. As tobacco control took a back seat in some countries, transnational tobacco companies (PMI, BAT and JTI) resorted to their bad tactics and registered huge profits for their …
13 December 2021, China, the world’s largest manufacturer of vapor products, will regulate e-cigarettes under the jurisdiction of the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration. The government announced they have issued draft rules and will require all e-cigarette wholesalers and retailers to require a license to sell their products through an established unified national electronic cigarette transaction management …
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26 November 2021 Regional vaping group, CAPHRA, promotes smoking with “Give The Man A Cigar” Award given to Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary, who championed the tobacco industry during the recent ninth session of the WHO FCTC Conference of the Parties (COP9). While claiming “vaping has saved the lives of millions of ex-smokers,” Nancy Loucas, coordinator of CAPHRA, which champions …
30 August 2021 Upstream, the tobacco industry reaps benefit from cheap tobacco leaves with children working in tobacco growing, harvesting and processing in unhealthy conditions, receiving very low wages if they are paid at all. Downstream, the tobacco industry reaps profits from tobacco advertising targeting children and sales to minors to grow their market. These …
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24 June 2021 Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) has just released an exposé on China National Tobacco Corporation (CNTC), a state-owned enterprise, its operations and expansion across the globe including how it is linked to illicit trade activities. CNTC is the world’s biggest tobacco company, supplying 43.6% of the global market for cigarettes which amounted …
