When Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organisation, prefaced the WTO’s 2015 report on the economic and health benefits of tobacco taxation with the comment that “raising taxes on ...

Australia’s tobacco excise has tripled over the past decade, with smokers turning to the black market for cheaper alternatives, sending legal sales into free fall. In the year ending September 2025, ...

The explosion in illegal cigarettes and tobacco has caused an unprecedented 29 per cent plunge in legal sales, blowing a hole in the federal budget and forcing the government statistician to take the ...

Dodgy darts might be twice as prevalent in Australia than legal ones, as excessive excise rates fuel the black market for smuggled cigarettes, the nation's illicit tobacco watchdog has revealed. The ...

U.S. cigarette smoking dropped to another all-time low last year, with 1 in 9 adults saying they were current smokers, according to government survey data released Thursday. Meanwhile, electronic ...

"The best thing that we could see for the environment is getting rid of filters altogether," Andrew Black, acting head of the secretariat of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on ...

Addison was found with cigarettes depicting Marlon Brando in The Godfather [Oxfordshire County Council] A man has been jailed for 20 months after repeatedly being found with illegal cigarettes and ...

The embattled telco’s chief executive Stephen Rue has been hauled before a senate inquiry into September’s meltdown, which has been linked to three deaths. He has revealed failures in communication – ...

Acen Australia secured a 20-year LTESA for the project in May 2023. Image: Acen Australia. Acen Australia has achieved full commercial operation at its 400MW Stubbo Solar project in New South Wales, ...

The political winds seemed to be blowing just the way the tobacco industry wanted last month, when the House of Representatives voted to protect cigarette advertising from assaults by U.S. regulatory ...

SYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LG Ad Solutions, a global leader in advanced advertising for Connected TV, today announced its official expansion into Australia with the appointment of Alex Blundell Jones as ...

Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.