By Dr. Mike Walden North Carolina has gone through two major economic overhauls in the last 150 years. The first was the shift from a largely agrarian economy to an economy focused on manufacturing ...

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, U.S. trade policy on tobacco was controversial. The United States used bilateral trade measures to pry open emerging Asian economies to imported cigarettes.

Illegal cigarette smuggling has become a significant contributor to funding terrorism and organized crime, both in the Philippines and around the globe, authorities and experts have warned. Evidence ...

Police have investigated a dozen arson attacks in Queensland linked to the illicit tobacco trade in the past year. Experts say the rising cost of cigarettes has fuelled the illegal market.

“We have to do everything just right in order to succeed.” The National Association of Tobacco Outlets, the trade association that represents more than 66,000 stores throughout the ...

The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday unveiled a proposed rule that would make tobacco companies slash nicotine levels in cigarettes, most cigars and other combustible tobacco products ...

The proposal would set a level of 0.7 milligrams of nicotine per gram of tobacco for cigarettes, most cigars, and pipe tobacco, compared to an average nicotine level of 17.2 mg in popular ...

A group of House leaders filed a bill to temporarily suspend the annual increases in tobacco excise taxes to combat the growing illicit tobacco trade and the resulting decline in government revenue.

Only a third of China’s trade surplus was with the United States, and only a third of the U.S. deficit was with China. That makes for tricky math for the president-elect. By Keith Bradsher ...

In a move that underscores the dire state of Zimbabwe’s economy, Triangle Limited ... which has necessitated constant trade-off between what the business needs and what it can afford.

Two brothers now living in Melbourne will fight allegations they ran illegal vape and tobacco shops in Albury.