A ban on people smoking in their public-housing homes in the US could be seen as discriminatory, either against public-housing tenants, or against everybody else.Read More
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
A Supreme Court decision is said to have cleared a hurdle in British Columbia's quest to sue cigarette companies for billions of dollars in health-care costs.Read More
Malta's Attorney General has been told to close a bribery-allegation case that arose out of allegations concerning the preparation of the EU's revised Tobacco Products Directive.Read More
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
'Free' trade agreements and Investor-State Dispute Settlement clauses seem incompatible – antipodean perhaps, no matter what interpretation is put on the word 'free'.Read More
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
