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More Resources Needed to Decrease Tobacco Dependence Prevalence

September 17, 2012

In the decade since the adoption of the FCTC, we have seen significant progress in the area of tobacco control policies that have helped decrease smoking prevalence. We have also seen increased demand in ces...

Plain Cigarette Packaging: Australia’s Victory

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September 17, 2012

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“We have taken on big tobacco... and we have won”, said Australia’s Attorney-General Nicola Roxon, hailing the judgement from Australia’s High Court that the country’s tobacco companies had failed in their chal...

FCAP Protests Tobacco Industry-Backed Party-List Group

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September 16, 2012

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A NETWORK of anti-tobacco advocates is asking the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to disqualify a party-list organization, accusing it of being a front group for the powerful tobacco industry In a letter add...

Big Tobacco Warning at Free-Trade Talks

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September 11, 2012

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Delegates attending trans-Pacific free-trade negotiations in the United States are being warned their countries could end up like Australia if they agree to allow corporations to sue governments in internat...

Tobacco A Big Issue Among TPP Negotiators

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September 10, 2012

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At yesterday’s TransPacific Partnership stakeholder event – a bit of political theater set up by the United States Trade Representative to demonstrate the “transparency” of the highly-secretive negotiations – n...

Does Cigarette Marketing Count as Free Speech?

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September 7, 2012

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Historians of free expression will one day write that early 21st century America was a place where the Supreme Court held that schools could punish kids who make a dumb joke that some humorless prig might think...

Business Representatives Working on TPP Issues Start New Jobs This Fall

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September 7, 2012

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A handful of business representatives that are closely following the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations have taken new jobs over the last few months. Linda Menghetti, an expert on investment issues...

FIFTH SESSION of the CONFERENCE of THE PARTIES to the WHO FCTC (COP5) – NOV 12-17, 2012

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September 6, 2012

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(Nov. 12-17, 2012 / Seoul, Korea) The Conference of the Parties (COP) is the governing body of the WHO FCTC and is comprised of all Parties to the Convention. It keeps under regular review the implementation ...

Plain Package Cigarettes Reduce Smoking Appeal: Study

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September 4, 2012

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A new study has discredited the tobacco industry's assertion that there is no proof plain packaging on cigarette packs reduces the appeal of smoking. Scientists from Canada, the United States and Brazil cond...

What is ISDS and What Does it Mean for Tobacco Control

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August 30, 2012

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ISDS stands for Investor State Dispute Settlement. I know, spelling it out doesn’t help comprehension much. It is a term of art for trade law policy wonks. Unlike most unnecessarily long bits of lingo, this one...

Unleashing the Campaign Contributions of Corporations

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August 29, 2012

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Way back in February of this year, more than two-thirds of Californians believed raising more money from tobacco companies to finance cancer research was a good idea. That was before industry money kicked in. ...

Smoke Signals: Plans of Big Tobacco Plain to See

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August 29, 2012

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IT'S easy to laugh at Big Tobacco. Fresh from defeat in Australia's High Court, it has taken its fight against plain cigarette packets to New Zealand where British American Tobacco warns such legislation could ...

Two Silver Linings to Graphic Warnings Decision

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August 27, 2012

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As anyone who follows tobacco-related news now knows, last Friday an appeals court upheld a lower court ruling striking down the FDA’s proposed graphic warnings for cigarette packages. In a 2-1 decision, the ...

Reynolds Adds Aids to Stop Smoking

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August 27, 2012

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Reynolds American Inc. is taking a bold — perhaps audacious — approach to entering the nicotine-replacement therapy marketplace, analysts say. With the Zonnic gum of its Niconovum pharmaceutical subsidiary, ...

States Urge USTR To Seek Tobacco Carve Out from TPP

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August 27, 2012

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Two state governments have called on the USTR to carve tobacco out of the TransPacific Partnership Agreement over well-grounded concerns that their own state and local tobacco control initiatives will be threat...

U.S. Court Strikes Down Graphic Warnings on Cigarettes

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August 24, 2012

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Friday struck down a law that requires tobacco companies to use graphic health warnings, such as of a man exhaling smoke through a hole in his throat. The 2-1 dec...

Tobacco Boss Says Some Regulation OK

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August 22, 2012

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New Zealand's tobacco industry is already heavily regulated and the Government's plain packaging proposals for cigarette packets is a step too far, the country's biggest cigarette manufacturer has said. In a...

14th Round of TPP Negotiations – SEP 6-15, 2012

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August 21, 2012

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(Sept. 6-15, 2012/Leesburg, VA) The next negotiating round of the Trans- Pacific Partnership will take place in Leesburg, Virginia from September 6-15, 2012. USTR will be hosting a Direct Stakeholder Engagem...

Hidden Hand of Big Tobacco Leads to WTO Challenge

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August 20, 2012

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BIG tobacco has opened a new front in its war against Australia's plain packaging law. The World Trade Organisation has revealed that within hours of the government's victory in the High Court, Ukraine upgra...

Philip Morris International Expands its Portfolio

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August 20, 2012

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Dips toe into alternative tobacco products worldwide NEW YORK -- Philip Morris International, the largest tobacco company in the world recently announced yet another stream of revenue growth. With more reg...

The Global Tobacco Epidemic is Far from Over

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August 20, 2012

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The global tobacco epidemic is far from being over. A recent study published in the Lancet suggests that the number of tobacco users remains very high in many parts of the world, particularly low and middle inc...

World Cancer Leaders’ Summit – AUG 27-30, 2012

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August 18, 2012

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UICC and partners will be hosting the 2012 World Cancer Leaders' Summit in Montreal Canada. The 2012 summit provides education and training opportunities throughout the program linked to one or more of the Wor...

UB Researcher Finds Big Tobacco Has Powerful Global Grip

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August 17, 2012

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A new study led by a University at Buffalo researcher shows that Big Tobacco has a strong grip globally, making for a huge challenge when it comes to curbing tobacco use around the world. In what is being de...

Fund profits from an addictive investment

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August 17, 2012

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THE taxpayer-owned Future Fund is profiting handsomely from tobacco investments, despite Canberra's plain packaging laws. As the High Court's landmark ruling in favour of plain packaging triggered a slide in...

Campaign Against Missouri Cigarette Tax Hike Gears Up

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August 16, 2012

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JEFFERSON CITY • Off-brand cigarette-makers are shouldering most of the cost so far of the campaign against a cigarette tax increase on Missouri’s Nov. 6 ballot. Cheyenne International LLC of Grover, N.C., a...