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[Europe, Malta] Foreign minister named as new Maltese EU commissioner
Malta has nominated its foreign minister to replace the EU's top health official after the previous one resigned amid allegations he sought to sell his influence to the tobacco industry.
Oct 22, 2012
AFP - Agence France Presse (fr)
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Oct 23, 2012 09:26
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[Belgium, Europe, Sweden] No smoke without fire? Tobacco lobby mystery shakes Brussels
A shady Maltese lobbyist, Sweden's substitute for snuff, robberies against anti-smoking groups: the resignation of the EU's top health official in a tobacco-linked "whodunnit" is shaking up Brussels. The EU's executive pledged Monday that a fraud probe
Oct 22, 2012
AFP - Agence France Presse (fr)
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Oct 23, 2012 09:13
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[Europe] Commissioner Dalli's resignation raises further questions
many wonder why the affair has been handled so secretly. Why have there been delays in the release of the revision of the Tobacco Products Directive – or TPD - and how exactly did Dalli breach the commissioners' code of conduct? What is clear is that repe
Oct 22, 2012
PublicServiceEurope.com (uk)
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Oct 23, 2012 07:19
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Alaska Native groups join forces to fight tobacco use
Now, with that support of the Alaska Federation of Natives, they’re trying to cut into the state’s high rate of tobacco use by Alaska Natives by persuading individual tribes to stop their employees from smoking at work. They’ve been particularly successf
Oct 21, 2012
Fairbanks (AK) Daily News-Miner
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Oct 22, 2012 06:16
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[Belgium, Malta] Dalli stands his ground, claims tobacco industry conspiracy
John Dalli, Malta’s EU Commissioner until he was forced to resign on Tuesday, yesterday came out fighting against what he says was his forced resignation from the European Commission in a bid to kill off the EU’s upcoming tobacco directive, he said yeste
Oct 21, 2012
Malta Independent (mt)
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Oct 21, 2012 20:52
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[Belgium, Europe, Malta] Anti-tobacco NGO will not be cowed
Anti-tobacco NGO European Respiratory Society (ERS) says it will not be cowed by targeted office break-in and John Dalli’s “controversial” resignation. The president of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) has urged his members to stand firm and not be
Oct 21, 2012
Malta Today (mt)
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Oct 21, 2012 16:42
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[Canada] DOWBIGGIN: Big tobacco has many enablers
the whole idea of holding the tobacco industry uniquely liable for the health consequences of smoking is a gross distortion of history. Big Tobacco has had a lot of enablers, including our own provincial governments. . . . Even if P.E.I. wins a big sett
Oct 21, 2012
Ottawa (Ont) Citizen (ca)
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Oct 21, 2012 15:06
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[Europe] John Dalli: The Tobacco Products Directive is dead [VIDEO INTERVIEW]
The John Dalli affair has had one significant casualty for the European consumer; the Tobacco Products Directive. Dalli came to New Europe's Brussels HQ on the morning of October 19 for a followup interview by Alexandros Koronakis, challenging the findin
Oct 19, 2012
New Europe
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Oct 19, 2012 09:10
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[Australia] ADCOCK: Thailand's draft tobacco consumption control act: Plain packaging and beyond
Thai authorities will need to ensure any measures they introduce do not end up infringing on Thais' constitutional rights, undermining intellectual property protection, violating the country's international trade obligations or unexpectedly resulting in i
Oct 19, 2012
Bangkok Post (th)
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Oct 19, 2012 03:14
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[Czech Republic] ČR lacks system protecting children from smoking, doctor says
The Czech Republic has 250,000 smokers under 18, but it does not have any systematic programme to prevent children from starting smoking, Eva Kralikova, from the Society for Tobacco Addiction Treatment, has told CTK.
Oct 19, 2012
Prague Daily Monitor (cz)
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Oct 19, 2012 02:52