MANILA, Philippines—The Supreme Court on Wednesday declared as constitutional a provision of the National Internal Revenue Code (NIRC) which levies higher taxes on cigarette brands that entered the market after 1996. Legality of higher tax on cigarettes upheld

Jakarta: The government may leave unchanged excise duty for Cigarettes and tobacco next year to protect the cigarette industry's employment rate amid sluggish growth in other labor-intensive sectors. Govt may not raise tobacco excise

FLINT, MICH. — Eighty years after a man named Lloyd "Spud" Hughes, as legend has it, accidentally mixed his tobacco with menthol crystals, Congress is fighting over whether to ban these popular, flavored Cigarettes. Congress weighs banning flavored cigarettes, but not menthols