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State of Kerala adopts a comprehensive policy on FCTC Article 5.3
May 24, 2019

23 May 2019, Bangkok – The State of Kerala in India has adopted a comprehensive policy to protect its policies against the tobacco industry’s commercial and vested interests. The policy is to be overseen by an intergovernmental committee which involves [...]

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Grand Prix of France of Le Mans: Justice gives right to the CNCT and prevents the return of Philip Morris on the circuits
May 20, 2019

CNCT, Press Release: The French justice has just subjected the multinational tobacco company Philip Morris a stinging defeat by giving a stop to its attempt to return to motorsport, including the sponsorship of Ferrari cars and Ducati motorcycles. Commissioned by the [...]

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Big Tobacco’s shadowy new play
May 20, 2019

The Sydney Morning Herald, Tim Elliott: With health authorities stubbing out much of Big Tobacco’s business, and vaping on the rise, one of the industry’s biggest players says it plans to stop selling cigarettes. Is that just hot air? Filipinos [...]

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WHO official: With e-cigarettes, the tobacco industry just ‘changed clothes’
April 8, 2019

EURACTIV.com: Sarantis Michalopoulos This article is part of our special report Tobacco control: What’s next?. In an interview with EURACTIV.com, Dr Vera Luiza da Costa, the head of secretariat of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), has criticised the [...]

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Piers Morgan ridicules Philip Morris boss for ‘staggeringly hypocritical’ campaign to ‘end smoking’ with help of less harmful alternatives – despite still selling cigarettes
April 8, 2019

Mail Online: Lara Keay The boss of one of the world’s largest cigarette companies has urged Britons to stop smoking.  Peter Nixon is the UK managing director for Philip Morris, which produces 800 billion cigarettes across the world every year.  [...]

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The cost of defeating Philip Morris over cigarette plain packaging
April 3, 2019

The Sydney Morning Herald: Pat Ranald Australia scored a victory over the tobacco giant Philip Morris in the High Court in 2012. The court held that Australia’s plain cigarette packaging laws were legal and did not constitute an unjust confiscation of trademarks [...]

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WHO rejects collaboration with Philip Morris-funded foundation
March 27, 2019

Public health round-up: World Health Organization WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus rejected a collaboration proposal from the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World, funded by PhilipMorris International. The foundation proposed that WHO “review and consider how best to work with the [...]

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STOP’s letter to the OECD Secretary General
March 21, 2019

20 March 2019 Angel Gurria Secretary-General Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Dear OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria: We, the leadership of STOP, a global tobacco industry watchdog, write to express our grave concern that a Philip Morris International [...]

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March 20, 2019

5.3 e-Updates: March 2019WHO shuns advances by the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World | New policy brief | PMAC side meeting   [...]

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Tobacco and E-Cigarette Lobbyists Circle as F.D.A. Chief Exits
March 16, 2019

The New York Times: Sheila Kaplan and Matt Richtel Dr. Scott Gottlieb became commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration in 2017 with an ambitious plan to reduce cigarette smoking, a habit that kills nearly half a million Americans each year, by [...]

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Explained: Why a Philip Morris Funded Foundation Is Repeatedly Denounced by WHO
March 12, 2019

The Wire: Anoo Bhuyan The WHO has refused to partner with any foundation that is funded by the tobacco industry to ensure policies are protected from commercial interests. New Delhi: Last week, the innocuously named Foundation for a Smoke Free World [...]

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Commentary: Philip Morris Says It Wants to Quit Cigarettes. But It’s Just Blowing Smoke.
March 12, 2019

Fortune: Matthew L. Myers and Robin Koval   Philip Morris International (PMI)—the giant cigarette manufacturer operating in most countries excluding the U.S.—claims it wants a smoke-free future, placing advertisements in major United Kingdom newspapers earlier this week with a New Year’s [...]

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Quebec Court of Appeal upholds ruling in landmark tobacco class-action
March 7, 2019

Allison Lampert and Martinne Geller, The Global and Mail: The Court of Appeal of Quebec upheld on Friday the bulk of a 2015 decision that awarded around C$15 billion ($11.29 billion)to smokers in the Canadian province, dealing a blow to [...]

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Quebec Court of Appeal upholds ruling ordering tobacco companies to pay billions to smokers
March 7, 2019

Kalina Laframboise, Global News: Quebec’s highest court has upheld a historic ruling that ordered three major cigarette companies to pay billions in damages to smokers in the province. Imperial Tobacco, JTI-Macdonald and Rothmans, Benson & Hedges were appealing a Quebec [...]

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Putrajaya warned against working with tobacco industry-funded lobby groups Draft
February 22, 2019

20 February 2019 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 20 ― The Malaysia Medical association (MMA) has warned the federal government today against working with groups that are stealthily being funded by tobacco companies. In a press statement, MMA said they stand with [...]

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Over 100 health organisations urge WHO to reject Philip Morris International-led body’s appeal to collaborate on tobacco control
February 11, 2019

New Delhi: Public health experts from over 100 organisations around the world on Tuesday urged the World Health Organisation Executive Board (WHO-EB) to reject a Philip Morris International-funded foundation’s appeal to the global health body to collaborate on tobacco control policies. To do so would depart from WHO’s strict longstanding policy [...]

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WHO Executive Board 144 Panama
February 7, 2019

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AN OPEN LETTER TO THE DIRECTOR GENERAL AND EXECUTIVE BOARD OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
January 28, 2019

28th January 2019 To the Director General and Executive Board of the World Health Organization, We write to you, as members of the global public health community, to express our grave concern at the attempt by the Philip Morris International-funded [...]

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How tobacco industry donations cloud debates over cigarette controls
January 24, 2019

Free-market thinktanks from Malaysia to Chile and Australia received funding from the industry alongside governments as they argued against tobacco controls Smoking kills more than 27,200 Malaysians every year. In March 2017, Malaysia’s health ministry hoped to reduce that grim tally by [...]

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Revealed: the free-market groups
January 24, 2019

More than 100 free-market thinktanks from North America to Europe and south Asia took positions helpful to the tobacco industry or donations, Guardian investigation shows Free-market thinktanks around the world provide a powerful voice of support to cigarette manufacturers in [...]

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Job openings at the Global Center for Good Governance in Tobacco Control
December 6, 2018

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Job Vacancy: Communications Officer
December 6, 2018

Location: Telecommute; preferably based in Thailand or within Southeast AsiaHours : Full-timeContract: Fixed TermSalary : Negotiable Duties: The Communications Officer is expected to: Elaborate and implement communication strategies and plans, in accordance with the objectives of the project. Assist in [...]

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Scientists Are Rejecting Massive Amounts Of Money For Research From The Tobacco Industry
December 6, 2018

Scientists don’t want tobacco industry funds to touch their work. Multiple Australian researchers have asserted that they will not accept funding or support from a tobacco industry–funded research organisation in an editorial published today. The Foundation for a Smoke-Free World (FSFW) is [...]

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The truth about lobbying: 10 ways big business controls government
December 4, 2018

Tamasin Cave and Andy Rowell The Guardian From trying to stop plain packaging on cigarettes to pushing through HS2 and opening the countryside to fracking, big business employs lobbying companies to persuade government to meet their interests. But what are the [...]

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E-cigarettes—new product, old tricks
December 1, 2018

Tobacco smoking cessation represents one of the most successful public health initiatives in the world, with smoking prevalence at its lowest during the past decade according to recent WHO estimates. However, since the introduction of e-cigarettes in 2003, marketed as a [...]

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Tobacco Industry Ploys
November 30, 2018

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US seeks $289bn in tobacco claim
November 15, 2018

19 March 2003: BBC News The US Justice Department is suing the world’s leading tobacco companies for $289bn (£184.5bn) of their profits for the alleged fraudulent marketing of cigarettes. A court filing by the US government claims the companies lied [...]

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Malawi: Tobacco Industry Accused of Engaging Children
November 15, 2018

21 Mar 2002 Hamilton Vokhiwa All Africa Nairobi — The Malawi tobacco industry has come under renewed pressure to stop using child labour and to make way for other more economic crops in the country. Tobacco accounts for a significant [...]

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Enticing Third World Youth; Big Tobacco Is Accused Of Crossing an Age Line
November 15, 2018

24 Aug 2001 Greg Winter The New York Times Sara Bogdani had just turned 17 last summer when she slipped into a short skirt and started working as a Marlboro girl. While the rest of her high school friends spent [...]

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Tobacco giant says sorry to Czechs
November 15, 2018

27 Jul 2001 Michael Ellison The Guardian Philip Morris, the US tobacco giant behind Marlboro cigarettes, has apologised for funding a widely derided survey that found that the early deaths of smokers helped governments to save money. “All of us [...]