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[Mid-east, Oman] Sultanate ranked 19th in global report on cigarette package health warnings

Oman, which adopted pictorial warnings on all tobacco products from August 9 this year, has been ranked 19th along with other countries in GCC in the ‘Cigarette Package Health Warnings: International Status Report 2012’.
Muscat Daily (om)
added Nov 27, 2012 06:50
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[Australia] Smokers left gagging by not-so-plain cigarette packets

A packet of Winfield Blues is no longer the colour its name would suggest - instead a sickly looking olive green sets the ailing backdrop for photos of health-plagued smokers in various states of decay.
Toowoomba Newspapers Pty Ltd (au)
added Oct 26, 2012 05:34
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[Australia, Hong Kong, Ukraine, USA] MARTIN: Smoke signals: plans of Big Tobacco plain to see

on the question of an outside Investor State Dispute Settlement Mechanism the Howard government stood firm. The Gillard government is standing firm, too. The multinational nature of large Australian corporations means it would effectively be giving them
Sydney Morning Herald (au)
added Aug 28, 2012 23:50
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[Australia] Tobacco challenges unlikely to succeed

Tobacco companies that are challenging plain packaging rules under international law following the Government’s High Court victory this week have little chance of success, legal academics have claimed.
Lawyers Weekly
added Aug 21, 2012 02:59
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[Australia] The last stand of Marlboro Man ($$)

The tobacco industry has never lacked for ingenuity in sustaining cigarettes' appeal in the face of growing awareness of their lethal effect. After all, Marlboro Man was created to give filtered cigarettes a more rugged image, when cancer scares drove me
Financial Times (uk)
added Aug 20, 2012 02:45
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[Canada] Graphic cigarette warnings don’t put out fire

a $140,000 Health Canada-sponsored survey of 1,505 adult smokers indicates that the agency’s past experimentation with warning messages is causing Canadians to stop lighting up around non-smokers, but may have done little in persuading them to put down th
National Post (ca)
added Aug 7, 2012 03:14
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Brunei's extensive anti-tobacco campaign lauded

A Senior Policy Advisor of the Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA) has congratulated Brunei Darussalam for enacting the largest graphic health warnings on cigarette packs in Asia.
Borneo Bulletin (bn)
added Jun 22, 2012 10:04
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Product retrieval time in small tobacco retail outlets before and after the Australian plain packaging policy: real-world study

Retailers quickly gained experience with the new plain packaging legislation, evidenced by retrieval time having returned to the baseline range by the second week of implementation and remaining so several months later. The long retrieval times predicted
Tobacco Control
added May 28, 2013 07:35
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[South Africa] Smokers take note: current and future tobacco regulation

Tobacco legislation in South Africa is constantly changing, and ignorant smokers may find themselves on the wrong side of the law with fines of up to R100 000. Here's what smokers should know, and new changes thay can expect in future.
Health-E (za)
added Mar 18, 2013 09:49
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[Australia, New Zealand] NZ to introduce plain packaging of tobacco products

Associate Minister of Health Tariana Turia said the Government would push ahead with its plans despite the threat of a similar legal challenge as one Australia has faced since introducing unbranded, standardised cigarette packets with large health warnin
New Zealand Herald
added Feb 18, 2013 21:56
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