The law only allows cigarette ads to be placed at the sites where tobacco products are either produced or sold. The Commission has lodged a legal claim against it, accusing it of infringing the collective interest of consumers in Bulgaria. One of the violations registered is that the print ads didn't use only the registered trade mark as stated in the law. After the Commission's check two of the companies brought down the advertisements, while the third refused. Cigarettes can also be...

Habanos is the arm of the Cuban state tobacco monopoly, Cubatabaco, which controls the promotion, distribution, and exportation of Cuban cigars and other tobacco products worldwide. trade embargo was imposed more than 40 years ago as part of President Kennedy's stand against the communist government, Americans have been banned from buying cigars from Cuba. The soil in the western part of the country is considered the best in the world for growing tobacco. There's no doubt tobacco...

Gustave Bock is credited with the invention of the cigar band in about 1854, and with helping to build the cigar industry in Cuba. It helps hold the wrapper intact, protects the fingers from stain and scent of tobacco, and is an eye-catcher due to the design. Gone, too, are the days when little girls slipped colorful cigar bands over their ring fingers, pretending to be engaged to the boy they had a crush on. By Barbara Carney Special to the Tribune-Star Gone are the days when cigars...

Two decades ago, tobacco companies only had access to about half of the world market; now, tobacco companies hold a lot more access in their hands as tobacco sales have skyrocketed, pervading publications, media outlets, even world cultures with their agenda. The tobacco industry will always remain a cultural cornerstone, because of the power it possesses in the global economic and political scheme. Two decades ago, tobacco companies only had access to about half of the world market; now,...

The Consumer Protection Act and the Consumer Guarantee Acts were enacted and proclaimed by the Government of Barbados in 2003, and the Minister of Commerce, Consumer Affairs and Business Development has declared that the most important of the benefits of consumer protection legislation are the following: The Consumer Protection Act and the Consumer Guarantee Acts were enacted and proclaimed by the Government of Barbados in 2003, and the Minister of Commerce, Consumer Affairs and Business...

No more crops of potato rotting near farms in Kamalganj, Fathegarh or Gursaraiganj on way to Farrukhabad township to remind of the time when Uttar Pradesh faced a potato glut in 2005-06 and 2006-07 and when farmers were begging middlemen to take their crop for as low as Rs 10 a quintal. No more crops of potato rotting near farms in Kamalganj, Fathegarh or Gursaraiganj on way to Farrukhabad township to remind of the time when Uttar Pradesh faced a potato glut in 2005-06 and 2006-07 and when...