The ACCC has accepted court-enforceable undertakings from both Philip Morris and Zen Sensation not to supply cigarettes that do not meet the mandatory reduced-fire-risk safety standard.
Cigarettes sold in Australia must meet the...
Tasmania’s Department of Health and Human Services is inviting public comment on the draft Public Health (Tobacco Seller's Licence) Regulations 2009.
The regulations, if enacted, would increase the tobacco licence fee under sections...
A 44-year old man is to be summonsed to appear in court after an Australian Border Force (ABF) operation resulted in investigators finding over 750 kilograms of illegally imported tobacco, with a...
The Therapeutic Goods Administration is seeking comments from interested parties on a proposal to exempt nicotine from the Schedule 7 dangerous poisons list, at concentrations of 3.6 per cent or less of...
Consumer insight firm Canadean says fun and flavour experimentation are key elements driving tobacco innovation, paving the way for the e-cigarette market to grow.
The company’s latest report claims that 55 per cent...
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission alleges two e-cigarette online retailers made false or misleading representations and engaged in misleading conduct by making statements on their websites that their e-cigarette products did...
The Alliance of Australian Retailers (AAR) has called on the federal Government to stop the tobacco black market.
The AAR says that four planned hikes of 12.5 per cent in tobacco excise taxes,...
The latest report by KPMG estimating the size and value of the illegal tobacco trade in Australia found that 14 per cent of total tobacco consumption in 2015 was illegal.
KPMG estimates that...
