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(Reuters) - Australia called on the world to match its tough new anti-tobacco marketing laws that will ban logos on cigarette packs, after its highest court on Wednesday dismissed a challenge from global manufa...

Stale Smoke: The Tobacco Industry is Up to its Old Tricks

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August 12, 2012

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The latest survey of tobacco use among young people brought good news about the prevalence of cigarette smoking, but highlighted a disturbing trend on the use of cigars and smokeless tobacco. The 2011 Na...

Imperial Tobacco Admit Giving Staff Free Cigarettes ‘For Research’

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NEW Zealand's largest tobacco manufacturer will be investigated for giving free cigarettes to its staff. Imperial Tobacco's commercial boss Brendan Walker confirmed cigarettes were available to office staf...

Cigarette Maker Helps Fund Anti-Tax Effort

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August 10, 2012

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Opponents of the tobacco tax increase on the Nov. 6 ballot got a big boost this week when Cheyenne International, maker of Decade cigarettes, gave $200,000 to fight the measure. The donation from the North C...

Tobacco Harmful to Those Who Farm It

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D.C. Circuit Says Big Tobacco Is Still a Threat

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August 1, 2012

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(Courthouse News Service) The tobacco industry still is regulated by an injunction born out of a 13-year-old federal lawsuit that bars tobacco companies from misleading consumers about the risks of smoking, the...

Federal Judge Rules That Tobacco Industry Lawsuit Against FDA Panel Can Go Forward

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August 1, 2012

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(CBS/AP) A federal judge has denied a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) motion to dismiss a suit filed by two of the nation's largest cigarette makers that claimed the advisory panel that reviewed tobacco prod...

Tobacco Groups Sue to Block New State Cigarette Taxes

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July 31, 2012

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(Chicago Sun Times) Two tobacco-industry trade groups are suing to block recent changes to Illinois’ cigarette tax, signed into law in June to help plug a $2.7 billion hole in the state’s ailing Medicaid progra...

Appeals Court Upholds Philip Morris Sanctions

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(Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a ruling banning tobacco company Philip Morris USA, a unit of Altria Group Inc, from making false or deceptive statements about cigarettes. The U.S. Court...

UGANDA: BAT Campaign Smothering Tobacco Law

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INDONESIA: USAID Indonesia Sponsors Cancer & Smoking Lecture

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(Jakarta Post) A US scientist says various kinds of cancer are linked to smoking, therefore cancer risk assessments need to focus on reducing tobacco consumption. Harold Elliot Varmus, the winner of the 1989...

If Tobacco Policy is Protected in TPP, Why is US Proposing a New Exception?

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(NZ Week / June 15, 2012) “US plans to table a specific exception of tobacco contradict the government’s reassurances that a Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement would not restrict New Zealand’s right to introdu...

Reynolds American Inc. in 2012: U.S. Supreme Court Leaves Company with “Massive Liability”

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(PHAI Blog) Three key issues were taken up at the 2012 Reynolds American Inc. (RAI) Annual Shareholders Meeting in Winston-Salem, North Carolina on May 3rd. First, the issue drawing the most public attention...

TPP Might Not Live To See Next Year

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President Obama’s Double Standard on TPP

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(Wall Street Journal / May 7, 2012) The president wants other countries to embrace free trade, while defending tariffs for domestic textiles. Trade officials from nine dynamic Asia-Pacific economies begin 10 da...

Why is the TPP Such a Big Secret?

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May 4, 2012

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Free Trade Won’t Snuff Plain Smokes

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Foundations Are Laid for Future Trade

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(Jakarta Globe) Last year, Indonesia’s clove cigarettes made headlines internationally. In an unprecedented move, Indonesia challenged superpower trading partner the United States at the World Trade Organizatio...

Big Tobacco Wants TPP Trade Deal To Block NZ’s Smoking Laws

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