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		<title>Judge Blocks FDA&#8217;s Graphic Cigarette Warning Labels</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 08:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A federal judge blocked a U.S. rule requiring tobacco companies to display graphic images on packs of cigarettes on Monday, saying cigarette companies were likely to win their argument that the law violates free speech rights, Reuters reported. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon sided with tobacco companies in their fight against the U.S. Food and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RTI reveals LIC’s huge investment in tobacco companies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The reply to a recent RTI filed by NGO Voices of Tobacco Victims (VoTV) has brought to fore the large share of investments made by the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) in tobacco companies such as Indian Tobacco Company (ITC), VST Industries and Dharampal Satyapal Ltd (DS Ltd). As per the reply, LIC held [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tobacco marketing system in Pakistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 07:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tobacco crop is of great economic significance for Pakistan although it occupies a relatively small area of 0.27 percent of total irrigated land in the country and about 3 percent in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. With suitable crop husbandry, it is capable of yielding very high income to the growers as compared to any other cash [...]]]></description>
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		<title>States Consider Proposal to End Tobacco Company Payment Dispute</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 07:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[State attorneys general are considering a proposal to end a fight with tobacco companies over $7.1 billion in payments due under a 1998 settlement. The accord with 46 states required the companies to pay $206 billion to resolve any liability in healthcare-cost lawsuits. The fight over $7.1 billion in payments under the 13-year- old accord [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government closes tobacco options</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 09:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Comments from British American Tobacco Australia executive David Crow earlier this week again raised the spectre of a legal fight over the Federal Government&#8217;s plain packaging legislation. Experts have pointed out on numerous occasions that there are no clear legal avenues open to tobacco companies. For example, Professor Greg Craven and Professor Mark Davison have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smokers Can Sue Tobacco Companies Over New Illnesses</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 09:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, the California Supreme Court unanimously ruled that smokers can sue tobacco companies after being diagnosed with a disease such as lung cancer, even if the smoker experienced other smoking-related illnesses years earlier, the Los Angeles Times reports (Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 5/6). Background In 1998, California passed a law allowing residents to file [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Profit of Tobacco Companies Increase despite Recession</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 09:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The second-largest tobacco company in the world, British American Tobacco (BAT), has reported an increase in its profits despite the hard times of financial crisis. The profits of the company elevated mainly because of its sales growth and increased sales in developing markets. The West Indies Tobacco Company (WITCO) witnessed a 3% rise in its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tobacco industry brushes off call for new restrictions on menthol cigarettes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 09:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a sign that the nation&#8217;s cigarette makers are still confident of their political muscle, the industry gave a collective shrug Friday after a federal advisory committee effectively urged regulators to consider a ban on sales of menthol-flavored cigarettes. Tobacco company stock prices actually rose after the committee released its report, which concluded &#8220;removal of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Tobacco Companies Rally Workers for Taxing Dosal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 09:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About 200 workers gathered Tuesday in Tallahassee for a rally and march to the Capitol in support of a bill they say would close a tax loophole on Dosal Tobacco. As part of an $11.3 billion settlement in 1997 between the state and large tobacco companies, fees are tacked onto cigarettes from most tobacco producers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Justice Department Proposes Tobacco Mea Culpa</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 09:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tobacco companies should say in product warnings that they deceived the public about the dangers of smoking and manipulated their products to increase addiction, the Justice Department said Wednesday. The department, in the final phase of a long-running court case against leading tobacco companies, released a series of statements that it wants cigarette makers to [...]]]></description>
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