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| UNITED STATES |
Tobacco plants tapped to grow solar cells
26 Jan 2010.
Tobacco plants could help wean the world from fossil fuels, according to scientists from the University of California, Berkeley.
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| SOUTH KOREA |
KT&G forms alliance with Imperial Tobacco Group
26 Jan 2010.
Kwak Young-kyoon, President of KT&G, South Korea's foremost tobacco company, and Andrew Lochrie, regional director of Asia & Pacific at Imperial Tobacco Group, signed an alliance agreement
under which KT&G will manufacture Imperial products.
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| GERMANY |
Higher tobacco taxes push smokers to contraband cigarettes
26 Jan 2010.
A growing number of German smokers are turning to contraband cigarettes in response to higher tobacco taxes, according to research just published. Instead of reducing the number of cigarettes smoked, the tax has only increased the number of illegal cigarettes consumed.
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| UNITED STATES |
New York City loses cigarette tax case
25 Jan 2010.
New York City can’t use a federal racketeering law to accuse discount cigarette retailers of evading hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes on Internet sales, the US Supreme Court ruled.
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| NORWAY |
Cigarette companies excluded from wealth fund
20 Jan 2010.
Norway has dropped 17 tobacco companies, including top cigarette makers like Altria, Lorillard, Philip Morris and British American Tobacco, from its USD 450 billion (EUR 317 billion) wealth fund for ethical reasons.
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| THAILAND |
PMI under investigation
18 Jan 2010.
American tobacco giant Philip Morris' legal troubles in Thailand appear to have deepened, with a commerce ministry probe having determined that the firm likely breached the Foreign Business Act (FBA), a senior ministry source said.
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| CHINA |
Pilot project to ban smoking in 7 cities
18 Jan 2010.
China is the world's largest consumer of tobacco and home to some 350 million smokers. Current legislation bans smoking in certain public places, but experts say enforcement is poor.
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| SWEDEN/ DENMARK |
Swedish Match and STG form new company
15 Jan 2010.
Swedish Match AB has signed a letter of intent with Scandinavian Tobacco Group to form a company combining the tobacco businesses of STG with the premium and machine made cigar businesses of Swedish Match, with the exception of the US mass market cigar business.
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| UNITED STATES |
Federal Court rules FDA cannot regulate e-cigarettes
14 Jan 2010.
The United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the FDA may not regulate e-cigarettes as drugs or medical devices.
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| UNITED ARAB EMIRATES |
Price of cigarettes may double
13 Jan 2010.
The price of a packet of 20 cigarettes should double to about AED 14 (EUR 2.68), the ministry of health (MoH) has proposed, to help get people to ditch the habit.
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