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[Asia] Positives outweigh negatives in Bangladesh's amended tobacco control law
Parliament of Bangladesh amended the Smoking and Tobacco Product Usage (Control) Act of 2005 by adding many tough tobacco control measures. These include a comprehensive ban on tobacco advertisement promotion and sponsorship, a ban on sale to and by mino
May 10, 2013
Framework Convention Alliance (ch)
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May 19, 2013 14:08
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[North Carolina] The 2013 Reynolds American, Inc. Annual Shareholders Meeting: orders, points of order, “out of order” and ordered out!
Dr. Sharon Brown, a grandmother and a shareholder from Pennsylvania, who was seated second from the aisle where the company’s sole microphone ... saw Dr. Brown fall to the floor after she attempted to get by the RAI employee. By the time Dr. Brown was ab
May 14, 2013
Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI)
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May 19, 2013 13:37
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Japan Society for Tobacco Control warns against appointing ex tobacco executive to national broadcaster
the former president of Japan Tobacco Company Mr Katsuhiko Honda is being considered for appointment as the next Chief Executive Officer of Japan Broadcasting Company (popularly known as NHK). Mr Honda continues to be affiliated with JT as a consultant ad
May 17, 2013
Tobacco Control Journal blogs
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May 19, 2013 11:39
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[Australia, Australia and Oceania, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands] ARCHIVE: Philip Morris Limited submission on a new Pacific trade and economic agreement (PDF)
PML faces tax and excise discrimination which impedes our ability to effectively compete in a number of markets. Fiji – tariff and excise barriers – unequal treatment of imported tobacco products, contrary to Fiji’s WTO obligations and GATT rules.
Jul 1, 2009
Australia Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (au)
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May 19, 2013 11:37
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[Australia, UK] DAUBE/CHAPMAN: Cameron’s cave-in on plain packaging is a boost to industry
When Australia’s former health minister Nicola Roxon was asked about the need for action at the launch of the report that recommended plain packaging, she said, “By not acting we are killing people.” The UK prime minister and his colleagues would do well
May 10, 2013
British Medical Journal
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May 19, 2013 11:27
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[Asia, Bangladesh] The Stench of Tobacco
The field is shared by Saptibari High School with 700 students. There is also a school for the blind adjacent to the tobacco market. Students of 11 other schools and colleges face the same situation due to tobacco bazaars that have invaded the school fie
May 17, 2013
Dhaka Daily Star (bd)
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May 19, 2013 11:17
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[New York] 16 Accused of Smuggling Cigarettes Worth Millions
One of the men had once lived in the same Brooklyn building as the personal secretary of a senior Hamas member, the authorities said. Another was something of a father figure to the terrorist who fatally shot at a van full of yeshiva students on the Broo
May 17, 2013
New York Times
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May 19, 2013 07:52
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Budget Office Says Obama Plan Would Cut Deficit by $1 Trillion
His proposal also includes almost $1 trillion in tax increases, by further limiting the deductions and exclusions high-income families can claim, increasing taxes on tobacco and introducing the so-called Buffett Rule, a new minimum tax on income over $1 m
May 18, 2013
New York Times
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May 19, 2013 07:45
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[New York] For Gay Men, a Fear That Feels Familiar
a unique strain of bacterial meningitis — has cast a pall over the gay night life ... Sharing cigarettes is also bad, but there is a theory in the literature that this is not because of the exchange of saliva but because smoking irritates the mucous mem
May 19, 2013
New York Times
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May 19, 2013 07:40
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[Michigan] VIDEO: Unlicensed: The Real Story Behind Teenage Smoking - Part 1
for the other 80 counties in Michigan –licensing cigarettes is illegal. The law which prevents it is the legacy of a strong tobacco lobby in Michigan that, 20 years after passage, still remains on the books.
May 16, 2013
WLNS 6 News (Lansing, MI)
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May 19, 2013 07:03