TOKYO, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Japan Tobacco 2914.T said on Friday it will buy Egypt's Al Nakhla Tobacco Company, a maker of waterpipe tobacco, for an undisclosed sum.. Nakhla exports waterpipe tobacco to ...

In contrast, vapour-producing products that use tobacco leaves, such as iQOS and Ploom Tech, are viewed as pipe tobacco, while non-nicotine e-cigarettes aren't regulated in Japan and are available ...

Japan Tobacco Inc. said Friday that it has signed an accord to buy an entire stake in two Egyptian water pipe tobacco firms, Al Nakhla Tobacco Co. and Al Nakhla Tobacco Co. Free Zone S.A.E ...

The new products are currently taxed by weight, like pipe tobacco, while the levy on cigarettes is per stick. ... Japan Tobacco shares have slumped 3.8 per cent this year, ...

Japan has long been a friendly place for smokers. Despite tens of billions of dollars in cigarette-related health costs and damages, anti-smoking initiatives have always had trouble gaining traction.

Japanese Tobacco is, however, the first company to emerge as a frontrunner for the huge sell-off. The public auction for the state owned tobacco company Tekel will, according to reports, close on ...

Competition to sate Japanese nicotine addicts is heating up. Philip Morris International Inc. and Japan Tobacco Inc. have rolled out products that are heated -- not burned -- in battery-charged ...