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[Australia, USA] SINGER: Cigarette pack rulings smoke out themes
LEVEL PLAYING FIELD: Who decides balance between public health and freedom of expression?
Sep 10, 2012
New Straits Times (my)
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Sep 11, 2012 10:31
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[New Zealand] Plain packaging: This time it's serious
The global tobacco industry - which barely flinched when New Zealand banned smoking in pubs and hiked cigarette prices - is fighting back furiously against plain packaging. Geoff Cumming examines why.
Sep 1, 2012
New Zealand Herald
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Sep 6, 2012 02:38
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[Australia, Ukraine] Canberra wards off tobacco protest ($$))
THE government has won the first round of its battle at the World Trade Organisation to keep tobacco plain packaging laws, but analysts warn it may yet face defeat.
Sep 3, 2012
The Australian (au)
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Sep 2, 2012 13:10
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[Philippines] Thailand Beating Cigar Tax Deadline
Thailand said that a Royal Decree amending the administrative requirements for VAT (value added tax) reporting for both imported and local cigarettes is expected to take effect in time for the October 15 deadline for the government to comply with its comm
Sep 2, 2012
Manila Bulletin (ph)
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Sep 2, 2012 12:56
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Australia challenges Ukraine on tobacco
On Saturday, Ukraine asked the WTO set up a panel to hear a dispute on "measures concerning trademarks and other plain packaging requirements applicable to the tobacco products".
Sep 3, 2012
Sydney Morning Herald (au)
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Sep 2, 2012 12:55
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[Australia, Hong Kong, Ukraine, USA] MARTIN: Smoke signals: plans of Big Tobacco plain to see
on the question of an outside Investor State Dispute Settlement Mechanism the Howard government stood firm. The Gillard government is standing firm, too. The multinational nature of large Australian corporations means it would effectively be giving them
Aug 29, 2012
Sydney Morning Herald (au)
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Aug 28, 2012 23:50
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[New Zealand] Editorial: Keep fighting against tobacco
Similar WTO action is forecast should New Zealand introduce plain packaging, as Associate Health Minister Tariana Turia intends. The Government should not be deterred by such threats. It has already taken significant measures to reduce the harm from smo
Aug 20, 2012
Independent Newspapers Ltd. / STUFF (nz)
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Aug 21, 2012 02:04
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[Australia] Appeal to WTO may yet deliver Big Tobacco victory ($$)
Two more clashes must be fought and won before it can claim victory, and these battles will be waged on very different terrain.
Aug 18, 2012
The Australian (au)
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Aug 17, 2012 13:35
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[Australia, New Zealand] WTO decision to influence NZ tobacco position
Our Government will wait to see how the World Trade Organisation will respond to Australia's move to force plain packaging of cigarettes before it decides if it will follow suit.
Aug 16, 2012
TV3 (nz)
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Aug 15, 2012 20:00
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[Australia] CHAPMAN: Big Tobacco crashes at first legal hurdle on plain packaging
Today’s smoking rates by youth are the lowest ever recorded. Plain packaging is designed to turbo-charge that decline and make smoking history for future generations. Quick and dirty Big Tobacco surveys months after its introduction will never capture th
Aug 15, 2012
The Conversation (au)
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Aug 15, 2012 16:56