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How do you sell death? The tangled world of illicit tobacco
Tobacco companies make more profit every year than Coca Cola, McDonald's, Starbucks, Google, and Disney combined – a staggering £30 billion.
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End European agreements with tobacco industry designed to curb smuggling, urge experts
The agreements drawn up between the European Union (EU) and the four major transnational tobacco companies, to crack down on cigarette smuggling and recoup lost tax revenues, are failing to meet their stated aims, concludes ...
May 28, 2015
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BMJ investigation reveals how big tobacco is able to woo parliamentarians
An investigation by The BMJ today asks to what extent is the tobacco industry able to reach out and influence parliamentarians?
May 20, 2015
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Beijing raises cigarette tax to deter smoking
China will more than double the tax on tobacco to 11 percent, the government announced Friday, as authorities try to deter smoking in the world's largest producer and consumer of tobacco.
May 8, 2015
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Using tobacco's marketing techniques in public health messaging
Carla Berg is trying to think like a tobacco executive. The associate professor in behavioral sciences and health education wants to borrow the sophisticated market segmentation techniques the tobacco industry has used so ...
May 6, 2015
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China chokes as tobacco profits a tough habit to quit
In the tobacco-producing heartland of China—the world's largest cigarette market—smoking is commonplace at work, in taxis and even in hospitals.
Apr 29, 2015
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Campaign hopes for Tasmanian tobacco-free generation law
International campaigners for a ban on tobacco sales to anyone born after 2000 say they are hopeful a bill will soon be adopted by parliament in Australia's island state of Tasmania.
Mar 19, 2015
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New tobacco atlas details scale, harms of tobacco epidemic
The Tobacco Atlas, Fifth Edition ("The Atlas"), and its companion mobile app and website TobaccoAtlas.org, were unveiled today by the American Cancer Society and World Lung Foundation at the 16th World Conference on Tobacco ...
Mar 19, 2015
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WHO chief wants tobacco firms pushed 'out of business'
World Health Organization chief Margaret Chan urged global action Wednesday to drive tobacco companies "out of business" and hailed progress in tackling smoking in many countries.
Mar 18, 2015
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UK approves plain cigarette packaging for 2016
Britain will become the first European Union nation to introduce plain packaging on cigarette packets after members of the House of Lords rubber-stamped a new law on Monday.
Mar 16, 2015
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