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[Asia, Malaysia] Council may push for tobacco control law via Private Members' Bill

The Malaysian Council for Tobacco Control and its affiliate members will push for a law on tobacco control via a Private Members' Bill if the Government does not table the Bill. The council's secretary-general Shaari Ahmad Junid said the Health Ministry
The Star (my)
added May 18, 2013 22:56
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[Africa, Nigeria] Anti-smoking Bill: Stakeholders Caution Lawmakers

PRO-TOBACCO campaigners and labour groups have urged the Lagos State House of Assembly to exercise caution in its debate on a bill banning cigarette smoking in schools, hotels, bars, nightclubs and other public places The group, comprising manufacturers,
The Guardian (Lagos, Nigeria)
added May 18, 2013 21:14
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[UK] Lynton Crosby lobbying row: David Cameron refuses to publish client list of his controversial aide

The Prime Minister today refused to publish the client list of controversial aide and lobbyist Lynton Crosby. David Cameron rejected claims that curbs on booze and tobacco were axed after ­pressure from Mr Crosby’s PR firm Crosby Textor, which has worke
The Mirror (uk)
added May 16, 2013 14:03
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[Europe, Malta] Surprising allies: from the Dreyfus affair to Dalligate

French MEP José Bové is convinced Dalligate was a “set-up by the tobacco lobby to bring down the commissioner”.
Malta Today (mt)
added May 15, 2013 09:46
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[UK] MONBIOT: Oxford University won't take funding from tobacco companies. But Shell's OK

I have asked the Shell professor of earth sciences at Oxford, the university itself and the umbrella body Universities UK to explain the ethical difference between taking tobacco money for cancer research and taking fossil fuel money for energy research.
Comment is Free (The Guardian, UK)
added May 14, 2013 19:07
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[Oklahoma] AUDIO: E-cigarettes popularity increasing, but questions remain

They might be new products, but nearly every convenience store in Oklahoma carries them. But the big thing now: independent shops selling e-cigarettes under the name of vapes. You see these poppping up all over the place, there’s one right here in Still
KOSU 91.7 (Stillwater/Oklahoma City OK)
added May 14, 2013 13:38
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[Europe, Malta] Were ‘EU funds’ a ruse for Kessler to bypass OLAF rules?

OLAF’s watchdog says the Dalli investigation was conducted on some irregular lines: ... was he egged on by the powerful and political interests at stake - a complaint given "special priority" by President Barroso himself and one which struck right at the
Malta Today (mt)
added May 14, 2013 04:31
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[UK] David Cameron's head of strategy sues Australian minister for libel

The case centres on a tweet in which Mike Kelly, now Australia's defence procurement minister, accused Crosby, who is Australian, and his colleagues in a lobbying firm of using "push polling", where an organisation attempts to influence or alter the view
The Observer (uk)
added May 13, 2013 14:46
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[Canada] LETTER: SHATENSTEIN: Tobacco may be legal, but the deadly poison is still sold to consumers

they knowingly sell deadly poison to consumers and that is both criminal and immoral. But, of course, Mr. Grant can’t make the connection because his Coalition is funded by the tobacco industry and, as author Upton Sinclair famously explained, “It is dif
Windsor (Ont) Star (ca)
added May 13, 2013 08:58
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[Africa, Nigeria] Anti-Tobacco Campaigners, Others Fault Proposed Ban On Smoking

PLAN by the Lagos State government to ban smoking in hotels, schools, night-clubs and so on was, at the weekend, faulted by both anti-tobacco campaigners as well as tobacco industry. Meeting at a public hearing, held at the Lagos State House of Assembly
The Guardian (Lagos, Nigeria)
added May 12, 2013 16:51
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