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Imperial Tobacco’s Global Director of Corporate Affairs on Plain Packaging

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June 27, 2016
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Listen to the radio segment here> Watch a different news segment with the same Imperial Tobacco employee here>...
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A growing gulf in the terrain of tobacco control

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June 1, 2016
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The theme for World No Tobacco Day on May 31, an annual initiative of WHO and the Secretariat of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), is plain packaging of tobacco products. Plain packaging prohi...
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Tobacco Firms Lose Court Challenge Over Packaging

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May 19, 2016
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The tobacco industry lost its High Court challenge to the UK government's regulations on standardised "plain" cigarette packaging. Read more>...
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Earth Day 2016

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April 22, 2016
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The harmful impacts of smoking go well beyond each individual smoker. Cigarettes have a negative impact on the environment throughout their entire life cycle - from growing the tobacco to disposing of the butts...
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Tobacco plain packaging likely to be law in New Zealand by end of year

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February 17, 2016
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A law that would force tobacco companies to wrap their cigarettes in plain packaging could be in action by the end of the year. Prime Minister John Key has confirmed a bill, on pause partway through the parl...
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Philip Morris loses case against Australia’s tobacco plain packaging law

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December 18, 2015
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Cigarette company Philip Morris has suffered another defeat in its long-running bid to overturn Australia's plain packaging laws. An arbitration tribunal based in Singapore has issued a unanimous decision ag...
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Good news from our friends in the UK

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December 18, 2015
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ASH (UK) news release: France commits to go ahead with standardised ‘plain’ cigarette packs as Big Tobacco’s UK legal challenge draws to a close The tobacco industry’s challenge to the UK’s standardised tob...
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Australia has spent $50 million defending plain packaging in trade dispute.

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July 28, 2015
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Australia's legal bill for defending its cigarette plain packaging legislation is set to hit $50 million as it battles to contain a case brought by tobacco giant Philip Morris before a tribunal in Singapore. ...
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Plain Packaging of Tobacco Products: A Worldwide Movement to Address a Global Challenge

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July 22, 2015
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July 20, 2015 - Paris, France - The Ministers and representatives of Ministers of Australia, France, Hungary, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Sweden, United Kingdom, Uruguay, and the Head of the ...
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Canada on edge of global fight over tobacco packaging

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July 15, 2015
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Canada’s government is watching and waiting as a global fight over tobacco packaging laws plays out. Tobacco companies and business lobbyists around the world are pushing back against rules that further restri...
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A Victory for Standardized Packaging

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June 23, 2015
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Earlier this month, the Australian Bureau of Statistics released figures showing that tobacco and cigarette consumption in Australia have dropped dramatically. Household tobacco consumption and expenditure volu...
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France: MEPs adopt neutral package for cigarettes

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April 7, 2015
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The measure, if adopted by the full Parliament, will take effect in May 2016. The ban on smoking in cars in the presence of a minor was also adopted. Read more>...
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Plain Packaging for Tobacco Will Become the Global Norm

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March 12, 2015
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Megan Arendt Office: 202-659-4310 Email: arendtm@ash.org PLAIN PACKAGING FOR TOBACCO WILL BECOME THE GLOBAL NORM But will the U.S. be last? WASHINGTON, D.C. – March 1...
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Breaking News: MPs back standardised cigarette packaging

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March 11, 2015
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MPs have voted in favour of introducing standardised packaging for cigarettes in the UK. It means from 2016 every packet will look the same except for the make and brand name, with graphic photos accompanying ...
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Time for the New “Normal” in Tobacco Packaging

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March 3, 2015
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Plain Packaging Should be Universal Yesterday, Ireland became the first country in Europe and the second country in the world to pass legislation requiring plain packaging for tobacco products. Under the new r...
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Ireland Passes Tobacco Plain Packaging Law

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March 3, 2015
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Dublin: Ireland has became the second country in the world to pass a law introducing mandatory plain packaging for tobacco products, prompting the tobacco industry to threaten legal action. It follows Austr...
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Big Tobacco Wants to do to Foreigners What it has Done to Americans

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December 19, 2014
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Those requirements have appeared in previous fast-track bills. They sound perfectly reasonable, right? Well, consider this: Australia is a party to the TPP and already has a free trade agreement with the Unite...

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