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MARTENS: IRS Sleuths Were on the Right Track: Big Tobacco Created Tea Party in 1994
Big Tobacco not only created the Tea Party, it has promoted it over decades, pumped millions into marketing it, and pulled it out of its magic hat every time it needed to produce an overnight, spontaneous “grassroots” movement.
May 22, 2013
DeSmogBlog.com (ca)
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May 23, 2013 03:50
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[Ireland] Taoiseach conducts formal talks with tobacco indstry
Taoiseach Enda Kenny received a delegation of senior tobacco industry figures in Government Buildings a fortnight ago, the first time any Taoiseach has conducted formal talks with the industry. Mr Kenny was accompanied by ministers Michael Noonan and Al
May 23, 2013
Irish Times (ie)
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May 23, 2013 03:46
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[North Carolina] Tar Heel lawmakers gird for tobacco fight
The U.S. Senate this week has started to fine-tune the huge, new five-year farm bill, working through votes on a series of amendments that will include a proposal to eliminate federal subsidies for tobacco insurance.
May 22, 2013
Raleigh (NC) News & Observer
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May 23, 2013 03:43
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[Mid-east, Uae] New GCC tobacco tax could fuel growth of Illicit trade beyond control of police, customs - White Paper
Dubai Police anti-forgery head warns of knock on effects at border controls, recommends phased-in increase over five years to avoid tax shock ... contact: Tony Lewis / Lindsay Johnston Total Communications
May 22, 2013
Zawya.com (ae)
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May 22, 2013 07:51
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[Nigeria] FG Revised Its Anti-Tobacco Bill
As the World Health Organisation pledged not to have any negotiation with any tobacco company, Nigeria says it has revised its anti-tobacco law. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the bill to review the existing tobacco law is now before the
May 22, 2013
Leadership (ng)
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May 22, 2013 07:34
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[Africa, Nigeria] Opposing Views on Proposed Public Place Smoking Bill
The Lagos State House of Assembly recently held a Stakeholders' meeting on a Bill for a Law to Provide for the Regulation of Smoking in Designated Places in Lagos. Femi Durojaiye writes The Lagos State House of Assembly recently held a public hearing fo
May 21, 2013
This Day (ng)
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May 21, 2013 13:41
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[Africa, Nigeria] BATN, others task Lagos Assembly on smoking bill
BRITISH American Tobacco Nigeria (BATN) has expressed its support for the passage of what it described as a balanced and evidence-based public place smoking bill by the Lagos State House of Assembly. This is just as the company lauded the assembly for p
May 20, 2013
Nigerian Tribune (ng)
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May 20, 2013 09:47
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[Colorado] Council broadened smoking ban in a flash
Pueblo's smoking ban was no accident, no sudden flash of lightning, although its boldness — to ban smoking in all public places — was a last-minute decision by City Council on Dec. 9, 2002. Former Councilman Bill Sova recalled that a coalition of local
May 19, 2013
Pueblo (CO) Chieftain
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May 19, 2013 18:45
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[Europe] TOBACCO INDUSTRY INTERFERENCE: ANOTHER “CASE STUDY” IN SPAIN?
new case of clear, public, unethical tobacco industry interference. Altadis ... has launched a campaign addressed to the Spanish political class and Nation’s government to oppose the European tobacco products directive. This campaign includes tobacco in
May 17, 2013
TobaccoRelated.org (Tobacco Control Unit of the Catalan Institute of Oncology)
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May 19, 2013 14:19
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[Michigan] VIDEO: Unlicensed: The Real Story Behind Teenage Smoking - Part 1
for the other 80 counties in Michigan –licensing cigarettes is illegal. The law which prevents it is the legacy of a strong tobacco lobby in Michigan that, 20 years after passage, still remains on the books.
May 16, 2013
WLNS 6 News (Lansing, MI)
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May 19, 2013 07:03