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[Burma/Myanmar] Myanmar's beer and cigarette investment boom raises alarm
Myanmar has nine cigarette and tobacco-product factories, with Rothmans of Pall-Mall Myanmar Pte. Ltd. controlling 85 percent of the official cigarette market. Black market brands, however, are so prevalent that they are sold at supermarkets. Two new fac
Feb 26, 2013
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Feb 26, 2013 14:40
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[Africa, Cameroon, Nigeria, South Africa] INVESTIGATION: Tobacco giant, British American Tobacco, caught in intensive smuggling, corporate espionage
Following events in South Africa, the BBC in July 2008 aired a documentary, 'Bannatyne Takes on Tobacco', which looked at BAT's tactics in Africa and revealed that the tobacco multinational was breaking rules in Nigeria, Malawi and Mauritius.
Jul 7, 2012
Premium Times (ng)
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Jul 9, 2012 09:05
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[Mississippi] Burke co-defendant Benham sentenced to prison on tobacco-tax scheme
Randy Benham, part of the first wave of arrests in area tobacco raids more than three years ago, was sentenced to federal prison today. Benham, 46, will turn himself in to a federal prison Aug. 20 to begin serving 12 months, plus one day on a three-count
Jul 30, 2012
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
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Jul 30, 2012 15:38
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[Gibraltar, Spain] Calls for changes on cigarette laws
A NEW law, passed on January 1 this year, which limits the number of cigarettes people can bring out of Gibraltar, is being challenged. The law is designed to crackdown on tobacco trafficking and states that residents of La Linea and the Campo de Gibral
Mar 4, 2013
The Olive Press (es)
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Mar 4, 2013 12:26
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[Mississippi] Sentencing set in contraband cigarettes case
Fred Brackett, who ran a tobacco wholesale company in Lancaster, S.C., is scheduled for sentencing Thursday in U.S. District Court in Aberdeen, Miss
Jul 8, 2012
AP - Associated Press
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Jul 8, 2012 13:56
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Brazil – major tobacco market under legislative attack ($$)
May 8, 2012
Tobacco Journal International
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May 8, 2012 15:29
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[Moldova] The machine that flooded UK with 7billion fake fags
Detectives from Imperial Tobacco traced “Machine 18” to the tiny Moldovan breakaway state of Transnistria — dubbed the most lawless place in Europe. ... Imperial believes there are 90 other machines used by gangs worldwide, but added: “With Border Agency
Mar 27, 2013
Scottish Sun (uk)
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Mar 27, 2013 10:54
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[Canada] LETTER: Woman fined for buying cigarettes at reserve store
I asked the officer: “If I’m not able to purchase these cigarettes, why is the store allowed to sell them to me?” His said it was because “they can get away with it.” . . . I might come out of this having to do some jail time but I don’t care. I will n
Oct 20, 2012
Thunder Bay (Ont) Chronicle-Journal (ca)
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Oct 20, 2012 19:37
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[New York] Schneiderman sues Native American-owned cigarette company
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed suit against a major supplier of a very popular line of native-brand cigarettes on Monday.
Mar 4, 2013
Albany (NY) Times Union blogs
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Mar 4, 2013 16:30
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[Palestine] Yassar Arafat and the Radioactive Cigarette
Last week, the body of the late Palestinian leader Yassar Arafat was exhumed and tissue samples taken to be tested for signs of poisoning by the radioactive element polonium-210. As I wrote then, rumors have circulated since Arafat died in 2004 that thi
Dec 6, 2012
Wired
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Dec 6, 2012 14:29