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Kazakhstan anti-smoking coalition supports draft law banning tobacco sales within 500m from educational, healthcare and sport facilities.

• 22 марта 2013, 13:34

The Australian government's pension fund for public servants Thursday announced it would sell off its Aus$222 (US$228) million holdings in tobacco companies following the nation's move towards plain packaging.

• 28 февраля 2013, 14:22

Retired German tennis great Boris Becker will headline the XV Habanos Festival, an event in Cuba designed to promote cigars and tobacco use.

• 20 февраля 2013, 12:31

Starting from 2014 the excise on tobacco will make 3,000 tenge ($20) per 1,000 cigarettes or 60 tenge ($0.4) per a pack.

• 06 февраля 2013, 15:03

After banning smoking in public places, the Turkish government has gone one step further by clamping down on an ancient tradition -- the hookah, or water pipe.

• 28 января 2013, 17:24

All cigarettes sold in Australia will be in identical, plain packages from Saturday in a world first after the government overcame legal challenges from the tobacco industry.

• 02 декабря 2012, 15:34

The deputy was outraged at the new draft law on taxation presented in the lower chamber of Kazakhstan Parliament.

• 23 октября 2012, 18:28

Australia slammed as a "sick joke" Wednesday new cigarette packs on sale as part of the national phase-in to plain packaging which play on drab branding and claim it's "what's on the inside that counts."

• 12 сентября 2012, 13:35

With oyster, tobacco and watermelon flavoured brews, Italy's craft beers are flourishing despite a punishing recession that is putting thousands of other businesses out of work.

• 29 августа 2012, 10:05

A US court on Friday shot down orders to slap graphic anti-tobacco messages on cigarette packs, saying the government overstepped its authority by trying to "browbeat" smokers into quitting.

• 26 августа 2012, 14:21

Tobacco use is massively entrenched in developing countries, where one of the biggest worries is the rise of smoking among women.

• 18 августа 2012, 13:20

Anil Kanade seems almost too stunned to speak about the deadly cancer recently found in his mouth, caused by his addiction to a popular Indian chewing tobacco that doctors say is fuelling an epidemic.

• 16 июля 2012, 14:47

Kazakhstan is going to toughen its rules of wholesale and retail sales of tobacco.

• 02 мая 2012, 17:00

Kazakhstan Ministry of Public Healthcare is reviewing the options of daunting images approved by EurAzEC to appear on cigarette packs by 2012.

• 23 июня 2011, 19:26

Press-conference timed to the World No Tobacco Day was held in Astana to discuss statistics of tobacco consumption in Kazakhstan.

• 01 июня 2011, 14:22

A flash-mob timed to the World No Tobacco Day was held on May 28 in Almaty.

• 30 мая 2011, 15:12

Philip Morris International will exterminate child labor in its tobacco plantations in Kazakhstan.

• 11 мая 2011, 12:49