Comment: by tobacco editor Jonathan Brown

(4-Nov-2003) - Though the news itself will not surprise many, the immediacy of South Africa's threat to duty-free tobacco sales has dealt a hammer blow to retailers and campaigners.

(28-Sep-2002) - DFNI editor-in-chief Dermot Davitt gave the audience a brief synopsis of the state of play with regard to the World Health Organization?s proposed ban on duty-free tobacco.

(7-Jun-2001) - INTERNATIONAL. The World Health Organization?s proposed ban on duty-free tobacco sales has gained strong support from many countries in Africa and southeast Asia. And retailers in these countries are being urged to act to convince their governments to help overturn the proposal in the WHO?s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.

(3-Feb-2004) - British-American Tobacco (BAT) has presented a strong case to the South African government for the retention of duty-free tobacco sales, focusing on the economic and social impact any ban would have on the country.

(15-Feb-2007) - The European Travel Retail Council (ETRC) has warned that a renewed focus on the duty-free industry in the light of recent security changes could cast the spotlight on tobacco sales once more