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Plainly Constitutional: The Upholding of Plain Tobacco Packaging by the High Court of Australia (PDF)
While each legal challenge is pursued and decided in its own context and its own way, no challenge to tobacco control measures takes place in isolation, not least because of the FCTC, a global treaty with 176 Parties, each having committed, under interna
May 10, 2013
McCabe Centre for Law and Cancer (au)
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May 19, 2013 14:12
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Plainly Constitutional: The Upholding of Plain Tobacco Packaging by the High Court of Australia (PDF)
While each legal challenge is pursued and decided in its own context and its own way, no challenge to tobacco control measures takes place in isolation, not least because of the FCTC, a global treaty with 176 Parties, each having committed, under interna
May 10, 2013
McCabe Centre for Law and Cancer (au)
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May 19, 2013 14:12
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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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[Canada] Day 144: Some unbelievable coincidences
In the course of answering these questions, Mr. Lacoursière revealed much about the influences that helped shape the report and those that were held off. In doing so, he left the impression that his own understanding of the social factors that influence
May 16, 2013
Eye on the Trials (ASPQ) (ca)
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May 19, 2013 01:08
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[New Zealand] Psychiatric patients fight ban on smoking
Cigarette bans can be torture for people in mental health wards, says lawyer
May 19, 2013
New Zealand Herald
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May 18, 2013 21:24
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[New Zealand] High Court to hear arguments against DHB smoking ban
The High Court in Auckland will begin hearing a case on Monday against a ban on smoking in acute mental health units controlled by Waitamata District Health Board. The application for a judicial review is set down for two days, challenging the ban in thr
May 18, 2013
Radio New Zealand - Te Reo Irirangi o Aoteoroa (RNZ) (nz)
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May 18, 2013 21:21
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[West Virginia] Big victory for Big Tobacco in Kanawha County
"It's virtually a complete defense victory," said Jeff Furr, attorney for R.J. Reynolds. The jury of five women and three men did not find evidence that punitive damages should be awarded. They also decided cigarette companies weren't negligent designing
May 15, 2013
Charleston (WV) Gazette
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May 16, 2013 09:16
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[Canada] Day 143: The countdown clock starts
today was a Stanley Cup day -- everyone was sitting forward in their seat intensively watching events unfold. Yet arguably the biggest development of the day happened not in the courtroom, but in a ruling Judge Riordan issued mid-day.
May 15, 2013
Eye on the Trials (ASPQ) (ca)
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May 16, 2013 03:03
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[West Virginia] VIDEO: Big Tobacco and Smokers Battle in Controversial Case
Marjory Moses, Director of Community Wellness at Davis Memorial Hospital, said, "To say that a cigarette could have been safer, that less nicotine makes it safer, or that a filter could make it safer, is just saying it could be different. It can't ultimat
May 15, 2013
WDTV CBS Channel 5 (Bridgeport, WV)
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May 15, 2013 19:53
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PUBLIC HEALTH LEADERS PETITION THE FDA TO ACT ON MENTHOL
With the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009, Congress took an important step to prevent youth smoking by banning flavored cigarettes. Because tobacco manufacturers use flavors, herbs and spices to mask the harshness of tobacco and
May 15, 2013
Public Health Law Center (William Mitchell College of Law)
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May 15, 2013 17:34