Discarded cigarette butts can hamper plant growth, new research suggests. The study, led by Anglia Ruskin University, found the presence of butts in soil reduced the germination success and shoot ...

Only a portion of the tobacco inside a cigarette comes from the leaf of a tobacco plant. A significant amount of the shredded brown innards of most modern cigarettes is a paper product called ...

These problems were addressed by engineering tobacco plants to continuously secrete recombinant proteins from their roots into a simple hydroponic medium. Three heterologous proteins of diverse ...

Swan Valley International managing director Mr Mutemwa Ushewokunze said the launch of the cigarette manufacturing plant was a testament to the commitment, vision and hard work of the company.

They then discovered he had been pushing 200 packs of ‘Rodeo King Size’ cigarettes in four black boxes under a flexible wire ...

Tobacco giant Philip Morris announced the closure of its only Australian manufacturing plant yesterday, with the loss of 180 jobs. The firm, which makes the Marlboro brand, said its cigarette factory ...