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Big Tobacco's big profits

Edit Indonesia News 05 Jun 2016
Story highlights The tobacco industry has annual revenues of nearly $500bn six trillion cigarettes are sold worldwide every year the 'big six' control 80% of the global market Chi ... ....

Tobacco industry’s FDA end around

Edit Pittsburgh Tribune Review 04 Jun 2016
Pennsylvania needs Sen. Bob Casey to stand up to the tobacco industry. The recent announcement from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that it would ... ....

Dems Join BIG TOBACCO to Stop Vaping Industry

Edit Infowars 04 Jun 2016
Dem ‘War on Vape’ could flip hipster voters to Trump! ... ....

McCaskill must stand up to tobacco industry

Edit St Louis Post-Dispatch 04 Jun 2016
While the long overdue announcement in early May from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that it would assert authority over all tobacco products was a critical step to reducing tobacco use and saving lives, Congress is now facing an… ... ....

Ash to cash: Big Tobacco's big profits

Edit Al Jazeera 04 Jun 2016
The tobacco industry has annual revenues of nearly $500bn six trillion cigarettes are sold worldwide every year the 'big six' control 80% of the global market China is the world's largest tobacco market one-third of all cigarettes are smoked in China electronic cigarette market is now worth $7.5bn tobacco kills six million people per year. Last week, retailers across the world did not sell cigarettes and tobacco products for one day....

Plain packaging of tobacco products to save lives

Edit Modern Ghana 04 Jun 2016
'Plain packaging reduces the attractiveness of tobacco products ... 'It restricts tobacco advertising and promotion ... 'Plain packaging can reduce demand for tobacco products, as clearly seen in Australia ... 'Most governments are committed to curbing the tobacco epidemic and reducing tobacco-related harm, such as deaths from cancers, heart and lung diseases,' said Dr Vera da Costa e Silva, Head of the WHO FCTC Secretariat....

Beer to flow through city as Belgian pipe dream comes true

Edit Dayton Daily News 04 Jun 2016
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Savanna Tobacco Rebrands Pacific Storm

Edit All Africa 03 Jun 2016
[The Herald] Zimbabwe's largest cigarette manufacturer Savanna Tobacco has re-branded and re-launched its popular Pacific Storm brand as the indigenous company seeks to consolidate its share of the market. Pacific Storm brand executive Rubatsiro Kadzunge said the move is part of Savanna Tobacco's drive to reposition itself against its foreign-owned competitors particularly in the toasted cigarette sector ... ....

Humaida - Sudan Is One of the Latest Countries to Stick Warning in Tobacco Packages

Edit All Africa 03 Jun 2016
[SNA] Khartoum -The minister for Health in Khartoum state, professor Mamoon Humaida, said the campaign against smoking cigarettes is one of the main priority of his ministry , pointing to the move taken by his ministry instructing all companies to stick warning against smoking cigarettes, though Sudan is one of the latest counties to take such basic measure ... ....

Tobacco Seed Sales Drop 64 Percent

Edit All Africa 03 Jun 2016
[The Herald] TOBACCO seed sales in the year to date have dropped 64 percent compared to the same period last year and this may lead to reduced crop size in the 2016/17 season. Seed sale statistics released by the Tobacco Research Board show that until May 27, 97 495kg of seed had been moved compared to 305 200kg moved last year.This is mainly ......

Can Poor Countries Combat Big Tobacco Too?

Edit All Africa 03 Jun 2016
[IPS] United Nations -This year for World No Tobacco Day on May 31 the World Health Organization has recommended that countries adopt plain packaging as a way to reduce tobacco use, however so far mostly only rich countries have been able to afford to implement the changes ... ....

Tobacco makes germs more resilient

Edit Courier Journal 03 Jun 2016
UofL School of Dentistry researcher David Scott. Tobacco makes germs more resilient.        .   ... ....

Quitting tobacco is not so easy for investors as sticking to 'ethical' stocks can be difficult

Edit The Daily Mail 03 Jun 2016
It's worth pointing out, of course, that the move does not affect the fund management side of Axa's business – just the money invested by its insurance arm ... ....
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