To be effective, tobacco health warnings need to show images that are within a smoker's experience, not warnings that are, to those who design them, simply more gruesome.Read More
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The Indonesian Government has been accused of wasting money on a World Trade Organization dispute over standardized packaging that it was unlikely to win.Read More
Although Australia won in its entirety the World Trade Organization dispute over its plain tobacco packaging legislation, both it and one or more of the complainants could lodge appeals.Read More
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During train journeys, the rights of non-smoking passengers outweigh those of tobacco smokers, the Beijing Railway Transport Court has decided.Read More
It seems only right that where a democratically-elected government acts in good faith to protect health, that action should not be overturned by commercial interests.Read More
A so-called corrective statement that US tobacco manufacturers have been ordered to make, 'It's not easy to quit', is the last thing a smoker should be told.Read More
It is difficult to understand what is the point of sending people to prison for smoking shisha, while it is easy to think of many reasons why they shouldn't be jailed for indulging in such Read More
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