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South Korea sues tobacco firms
2014-04-14 08:25:38| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
South Korea's state health insurer sues three tobacco firms, including the local unit of Philip Morris, to offset treatment costs for diseases linked to smoking.
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Britain to introduce plain tobacco packaging
2014-04-04 01:00:00| Packaging Gateway
The British Government intends to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes in a bid to improve public health and reduce the number of child smokers.
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March top stories: Australian tobacco sales rise despite plain packaging introduction, NiceLabel's new smart label solution
2014-04-03 01:00:00| Packaging Gateway
Australian tobacco sales rise in 2013, NiceLabel's new smart label solution, Sick UK's launch of new photoelectric sensor DeltaPac, CMB Engineering's opening of UK academy of canmaking and seaming. Packaging-gateway.com wraps up the key headlines fro
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Australian tobacco sales rise despite plain packaging
2014-03-24 01:00:00| Packaging Gateway
The latest industrial sales report has revealed that sales of tobacco increased in Australia in 2013 despite the introduction of plain packaging in December 2012.
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Tax fossil fuel addiction the same way we treated tobacco addiction
2014-03-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Star-Ledger: Back when Fred Flintstone was puffing away on Winston cigarettes in the 1960s, it was hard to imagine the day would ever come when we would see the end of smoking in the U.S. But, much to the relief of our overburdened healthcare system, some officials now dare to predict that the adult smoking rate will drop to 5 percent or lower by mid-century. So, how is America breaking its addiction to tobacco, and what lessons can we apply to a similarly dangerous addiction - burning fossil fuels? For...
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