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[North Carolina, Ohio] Top tobacco executives set to meet with FLOC
Top executives for tobacco giant Reynolds American Inc. have agreed to resume discussions with the Toledo-based Farm Labor Organizing Committee about ways to address alleged farm-worker abuses.
May 11, 2013
Toledo (OH) Blade
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May 11, 2013 13:55
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Russian ‘smokers’ rights’ movement holds founding convention
a ‘smokers’ rights’ movement headed by a flamboyant Soviet-era actor has been formed to “protect the rights and dignity” of Russians who light up. Members of the All-Russian Movement for Smokers’ Rights voted during their founding convention to collect
Apr 26, 2013
RT TV / TV Novosti (ru)
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Apr 26, 2013 11:26
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[Bangladesh] Bidi workers protest discriminations between bidi and cigarette
Increase in taxes on bidi would hamper the sector including women employment, bidi workers of different factories claimed yesterday. From a view exchange meeting on “Diary of Bidi workers” in the capital’s CIRDAP auditorium, speakers made the comment an
May 5, 2013
Dhaka Tribune (bd)
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May 5, 2013 20:28
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[Greece] Tobacco Art Masterpiece Returns to Thessaloniki
The Cultivation of Tobacco, the monumental artwork created in 1960 by one of the greatest Greek engravers Tassos (Anastasios Alevizos) and his wife, also an engraver, Loukia Maggiorou, is returning to Stavroupouli in Thessaloniki. The Greek masterpiece
Feb 10, 2013
Greek Reporter
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Feb 10, 2013 21:26
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[Indiana] Lawmakers Could Revisit Smoking's Effect On Insurance Rates
One idea that has been floated is allowing employers to charge higher insurance premiums or co-pays for people who smoke or have other unhealthy habits. Indiana AFL-CIO President Nancy Guyott says the union would fight that idea if it is proposed. She wa
Aug 28, 2012
Indiana Public Media - WFIU / WTIU
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Aug 28, 2012 08:23
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[Europe] MEPs vote on supporting redundant tobacco workers
MEPs in the European Parliament's Budget Committee are to vote this afternoon on providing €3.9 million from the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) to help 270 workers made redundant by Austria Tabak GmbH and by 14 suppliers and downstream produ
Mar 26, 2013
New Europe
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Mar 26, 2013 13:52
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[Macau] Casino workers call for strict smoking-ban enforcement
A casino workers’ group met with Labor Affairs Bureau (DSAL) director Wong Chi Hong yesterday, during which they asked for stricter enforcement efforts on the smoking-ban imposed on all casinos from the beginning of this year, and to give double or triple
Feb 8, 2013
Macau Daily Times (mo)
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Feb 8, 2013 12:38
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[Tanzania] EDITORIAL: Child labour in tobacco farms even worse thing
children who work in tobacco farms, sometimes along their parents, imperil their lives. They should be rescued. Medical doctors say that health complications emanating from tobacco farming, processing and consumption are sources of respiratory infections
Nov 26, 2012
TSN Daily News(tz)
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Nov 26, 2012 16:57
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Dick Meister: Danger and death in the tobacco fields
There are nearly 100,000 tobacco harvesters, some as young as 12, most of them Mexican immigrants. They work during the summer in the tobacco fields of North Carolina, the country's leading tobacco producer. As the AFL-CIO, its Farm Labor Organizing Comm
Sep 26, 2012
San Francisco Bay Guardian
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Sep 26, 2012 12:25
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[South Carolina] Proposal would allow SC employers decline to hire smokers
Apr 9, 2013
Columbia (SC) State
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Apr 10, 2013 15:04