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		<title>Images Shed Light on the Tobacco Industry’s Harsh Reality</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 08:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This month, District Judge Richard Leon halted efforts by the United States Food and Drug Administration to place graphic images of the consequences of smoking on cigarette packages, as a result of the allegations that these images would be unconstitutional. Five of the largest companies in the tobacco industry sued the FDA on the grounds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHO calls for action on world tobacco industry</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 07:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UN&#8217;s health chief challenged governments on Monday to accelerate the implementation of a robust framework convention on tobacco control despite the &#8220;despicable efforts&#8221; of the tobacco industry to subvert it. World Health Organisation director-general Margaret Chan told the general assembly in New York that fully implementing the UN&#8217;s anti-smoking Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cigarette Lawsuit Could Save Tobacco Industry Money</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 07:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lawsuit that cigarette makers are filing against the U.S. government probably won’t hold up in court, but it will mean delaying the day cigarette packs carry pictures conveying the dangers of smoking. According to the Associated Press, the estimated year-long delay the lawsuit will cause could end up saving the tobacco industry millions of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Tobacco Spent $100 Million Plus on CA Politics in Past Decade</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 07:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past decade, “Big Tobacco” spent over $100 million to influence elections and legislative policy in California, according to a report, Tobacco Money in California Politics. The report can be read in full at the Center For Tobacco Policy and Organizing site. A searchable database of campaign contributions on the site provides precise figures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cigarettes Second Only to Rice for Nation’s Poor</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 06:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Indonesia struggles to address poverty and an overburdened health sector, a recent survey has found that spending on cigarettes is the second-biggest expenditure in poor households. Rusman Heriawan, head of the Central Statics Agency (BPS), said on Sunday that the proportion of poor people’s income spent on tobacco was second only to rice. Urban [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fight against tobacco companies strengthens</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 05:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Manitoba and Nova Scotia will join New Brunswick and other provinces actively pursuing legal action against the tobacco industry to recover health-care costs. The Manitoba government said it intends to reach a satisfactory arrangement with a consortium of law firms hired by the New Brunswick government to handle this province&#8217;s litigation. The New Brunswick group [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jury Finds Tobacco Companies Not Responsible For Smokers&#8217; Health Costs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 09:34:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (Dow Jones)&#8211;Altria Group Inc.&#8217;s (MO) Philip Morris USA said Friday a St. Louis state-court jury has returned a verdict for a number of tobacco companies, agreeing that 37 Missouri hospitals couldn&#8217;t recover costs for treating sick smokers. Lorillard Inc. (LO), Reynolds American Inc.&#8217;s (RAI) R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and others were also named [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clouds hanging over tobacco industry</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The regulations, banning the use of various additives in tobacco processing, are to be drafted by the end of 2012. Some 40 percent of tobacco grown in Poland constitutes the Burley variety, used for the production of so-called American blends, enjoying the greatest popularity among smokers here. The problem is that these brands require addition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why stop at the tobacco industry?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 09:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than 20 years ago, when I was living in Washington DC and went on a course to give up smoking, one of the recommended therapies was wrapping your cigarette packet in plain paper so you couldn&#8217;t see the name of the brand. Oddly enough, this helped. I hadn&#8217;t realised until then how big a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tobacco adds fuel to Zimbabwe&#8217;s exports</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 08:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Farmers have also been spurred on by Zimbabwe&#8217;s adoption of the US dollar following the collapse of its own currency, with 99 per cent of all tobacco grown in the country now exported. Operators of a farm outside Zimbabwe&#8217;s capital Harare are harvesting a fine crop of lush 16 leaf plants to be smoked dry [...]]]></description>
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