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[Europe] Tobacco industry interests put before public health in International Trade Committee vote

A majority of MEPs on the Parliament's International Trade Committee have today voted in favour of both less stringent rules on health warnings ... "Today's vote represents a victory for the tobacco industry over public health. However, this opinion from
EurActiv
added Jun 18, 2013 12:50
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Can new FDA graphic warning labels for tobacco pass a first amendment legal challenge?

In an analysis of legal and scientific issues for graphic warning labels published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, John Kraemer, JD, MPH, outlines how the courts will likely analyze graphic warnings and identifies what health evidence mus
Science Codex
added Jun 18, 2013 06:11
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[Kazakhstan] Frightening images won't help cut smoking: opinion

Some experts believe that the law requiring frightening images to be printed on cigarette packs in Kazakhstan will not reduce the number of smokers, NEWSru.com reports. The regulation will just create a new niche at the tobacco market.
Tengrinews.kz (kz)
added Jun 17, 2013 12:08
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[Europe] BRAUCHLI: Cigarettes and Senators

Consider Senators Mitch McConnell (R - KY) and Richard Burr (R - N.C.). ... The money that cigarettes have paid the two men, as well as some of their colleagues, makes them understandably sensitive to the well-being of their donors and they have expresse
Huffington Post (blog)
added Jun 15, 2013 16:30
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[UK] ‘Tobacco packaging fight must continue’

non-smoking Shipley MP Philip Davies has added his voice to the campaign against the introduction plain packaging, which he claimed would be a case of ‘gesture politics’. Mike Ridgway, co-ordinator for a group of UK packaging companies including Weidenha
Bradford Telegraph and Argus (uk)
added Jun 14, 2013 09:52
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Australia urges world to stand up to tobacco industry

Australia on Friday urged governments around the globe to stand up to the tobacco industry, saying it was confident of victory in a new legal battle over its landmark plain packaging rules. "Big tobacco will stop at nothing to use every opportunity they
AFP - Agence France Presse (fr)
added Jun 14, 2013 09:31
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Altria's CEO Hosts 2013 Investor Day Conference (Transcript)

We have continued to achieve substantial success in managing the tobacco and health litigation, notwithstanding significant challenges. ... I will touch on two categories of tobacco litigation, lights class actions and individual cases, including Engle p
Seeking Alpha blog network
added Jun 13, 2013 11:07
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[UK] CRAWLEY: E-cigarettes: the conspiracy theorists might just have it right

for the government to build up regulation for e-cigs just a month after caving in on the issue of standardised, non-enticing packaging for real, poisonous cigarettes, is frankly bizarre, and really does cause one to wonder what conversations are going on
New Statesman (uk)
added Jun 13, 2013 10:59
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[Australia] Tobacco Reporter June 13

NO PRETTY PICTURE Six months of plain packaging
Tobacco Reporter
added Jun 12, 2013 16:34
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[UK] BANCROFT: I like smoking – but I don't want big tobacco to recruit me

The warning labels and smoking ban don't bother me, but I do object to Philip Morris asking me to nag my MP about my 'rights'
Comment is Free (The Guardian, UK)
added Jun 12, 2013 16:12
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