RICHMOND, Va. — Goodbye, Marlboro Lights. Hello, Marlboro Gold Pack. “Light” cigarettes are going up in smoke by the end of June, but their names and packaging are getting a colorful makeover. The ...

PHILADELPHIA — Pull a knob on the vintage cigarette machine and you may pick up a new habit -- buying art. The Art-o-Mat offers miniature paintings, sculpture and other tiny trinkets for not much more ...

Under the new framework, excise duty will no longer depend on actual production or self-declared output. Duty will be levied on a deemed quantity of production linked to the maximum capacity of the ...

THE BUREAU of Internal Revenue (BIR) has seized unregistered cigarette-making machinery in various locations as part of a broader crackdown on tax evasion in the tobacco industry, the Department of ...

While R.J. Reynolds gets most of the credit for turning Winston-Salem into a tobacco empire, it was William C. Briggs who laid the foundation. Briggs, an engineer and machinist, came to the Twin City ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Finance (DOF) has ordered the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) and the Bureau of Customs (BOC) to strengthen the crackdown on cigarette counterfeiters, ...