Giles Roca, Director General of the Tobacco Manufacturers’ Association (TMA), commented: "This anti-business idea is illogical and ignores a major cause of lost tobacco tax, the illegal market. Rather than coming up with ways to attack a legitimate UK business sector, selling a legal product which...
8th October 2013 The EU has today voted on proposals for a new Tobacco Products Directive. Proposals include an increase in the size of pictorial health warnings to cover 65% of the pack, a ban on selling cigarettes in packs of less than 20 or...
Under new EU safety standards all cigarettes placed in the market from 17 November 2011 must be LIP (Lower Ignition Propensity) compliant. To comply with the standards, cigarette design modifications have been made, for example using ‘banded’ paper, which are bands of thicker paper which...
Tobacco Manufacturers' Association's complete response to the public consultation on the possible revision of the Tobacco Products Directive 2001/37/EC Download document....
Submission to the NI consultation - Tobacco Control Regulations to Ban Displays of Tobacco Products Download document....
A new survey commissioned by Save our Pubs and Clubs (SOPAC) reveals the impact of the smoking ban on pubs in the UK. Click here to download a copy of the report....
Latest EU cigarette price map and table updated to July 2010. You can view the latest information by clicking here. ...
Welcome to the new TMA website. In addition to our views on a wide range of policy issues, the redesigned site includes a new subscription service, media centre (including images and videos), the latest TMA polls and up to date industry news. If you would like...
ASH has released yet another report [2] that simply revisits previous reports and documents that are already in the public domain. This charity which is funded by Government grants is effectively lobbying, a process it decries as unacceptable when practised by those it seeks...
The Tobacco Manufacturers’ Association (TMA) has appointed Dirk Vennix MBA FCIPR as Director of Communications. Dirk joins the TMA from Enterprise Insight, where he was Director of Campaign Operations. He was responsible for ensuring that the communications based campaign, promoting enterprise to young people, was delivered...