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[Australia] Appeal to WTO may yet deliver Big Tobacco victory ($$)

Two more clashes must be fought and won before it can claim victory, and these battles will be waged on very different terrain.
The Australian (au)
added Aug 17, 2012 13:35
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[Australia] 'Fishing bum' cigarette box wraps foil plain packaging laws

Box Wrap, a sticker manufacturing company, created the workaround for smokers who dislike the mandatory olive green packaging and gruesome health warnings, which came into effect on cigarette packs on 1 December. “People feel they have had their choice
Marketing magazine (au)
added Dec 11, 2012 20:22
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[Australia] Label printer turns plain cigarette packaging into sticker success

thanks to a self-adhesive label that covers plain packaging of cigarettes. Box Wrap is a partnership between Anthony Do Rozario and Joel Whittaker, who runs vehicle graphics printer Five Three Designs in Yatala.
ProPrint (au)
added Jan 9, 2013 15:50
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[Australia] Plain cigarette packs whack

SUPERMARKETS will have three months to clear their stocks of branded cigarette packs or face penalties of up to $1.1 million in the new plain packaging rules.
Melbourne (Vic) Herald Sun (au)
added Aug 26, 2012 20:35
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[Australia, New Zealand] Plain packaging not affecting tobacco sales

The Australasian Association of Convenience Stores says tobacco sales remain consistent, despite plain packaging, but retailers are paying more in administrative and labour costs to implement the change.
Radio New Zealand - Te Reo Irirangi o Aoteoroa (RNZ) (nz)
added Feb 10, 2013 22:22
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Marlboro Box Defaced in Australia Where Future Is Now

the future of cigarette packs is on display in Australia, and it’s not that pretty: large, graphic images of gangrenous limbs and cancer victims, with brand names printed in a uniform font on a background legally defined as “drab dark brown.”
Bloomberg News
added Oct 5, 2012 14:11
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Australia's Plain Packaging Law Negatively Impacting Retailers

Australian retailers worried new regulations requiring plain packaging for tobacco products would affect their bottom line, and new research indicates they had a right to worry. Roy Morgan Research, based in Australia, found that increased administrative
Convenience Store News
added Mar 27, 2013 11:55
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[Australia] Aus smokers lose their taste for plain packaged cigarettes

SMOKERS have reported noticing a change in the way their cigarettes taste since the introduction of Australia's world-first tobacco plain packaging laws in December.
Whitsunday Times (au)
added Feb 13, 2013 12:47
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[Australia, Uruguay] Treaty Shopping: How Philip-Morris Cherry-Picked Worst Case BITs

a closer look reveals a broad collection of older treaties that do not contain exceptions in modern treaties that could have avoided this situation. As a multinational-enterprise, Philip-Morris has attempted to evade these exceptions by going through sub
infojustice.org (Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property - American University Washington College of Law)
added Dec 3, 2012 00:04
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[Australia] New 'trick' in cigarette names

An anti-smoking campaigner has accused tobacco companies of "sexing up" their brand names to make them more appealing in the wake of plain packaging laws.
West Australian
added Sep 26, 2012 18:44
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