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	<description> About 200 people on Sunday protested in downtown Sofia against the ban on smoking in all enclosed public spaces, which comes into force on 1 June, reports Novinite news agency.</description>
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	<description> Representatives of Russia’s Donskoy Tabak and China’s Hongta Group held talks on the production and sale of Hongta’s brands in Russia.</description>
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	<title>Tobacco sales ban for young people proposed</title>
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	<date>Mon, 14 May 2012 00:00:00 +0100</date>
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	<description> Professor Jon Berrick, from the National University of Singapore, proposed Tasmania as the ideal testing ground to introduce a ban on cigarette sales to everyone born after the year 2000.</description>
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	<date>Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 +0100</date>
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	<description> EU foreign ministers on Tuesday agreed on a 15th round of sanctions against Syria, which include an assets freeze on the General Organisation of Tobacco.</description>
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	<date>Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 +0100</date>
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	<description> Mashonaland Tobacco Company (MTC) is facing closure after Parliament yesterday heard the firm was illegally operating since it had not been licenced by the Agriculture ministry, reports Newstoday on ...</description>
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	<date>Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 +0100</date>
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	<description> Finance Minister Bill English may hike the excise on tobacco and alcohol to reduce a budget deficit forecasted at NZD 640 million (EUR 387 million), reports the New Zealand Herald.</description>
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	<title>Imperial Tobacco bashes plain packaging</title>
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	<date>Tue, 08 May 2012 00:00:00 +0100</date>
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	<description> Imperial Tobacco chief executive Alison Cooper has criticised the UK government’s plans to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes as “anti-business”.</description>
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	<description> GCH International and Sensortech-MoistTech have signed a distributor agreement wherein GCH will provide support to the MoistTech’s line of moisture measurement equipment in the US.</description>
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	<title>Higher profits at Swedish Match</title>
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	<date>Wed, 09 May 2012 00:00:00 +0100</date>
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	<description> Swedish Match reported first quarter profit of SEK 668 million (EUR 75 million) or SEK 3.24 per share versus SEK 533 million or SEK 2.49 per share a year ago.</description>
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	<title>Stricter anti-smoking law passed</title>
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	<date>Fri, 04 May 2012 00:00:00 +0100</date>
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	<description> The Danish parliament on 21 April adopted an amended tobacco control law, which further restricts smoking and increases the fines for breaking the law.</description>
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	<title>Olczak to replace CFO Waldemer at PMI</title>
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	<date>Mon, 07 May 2012 00:00:00 +0100</date>
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	<description> Jacek Olczak, head of the European Union region at Philip Morris International (PMI), will replace Chief Financial Officer Hermann Waldemer in August. </description>
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	<date>Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:00 +0100</date>
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	<description> Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s new prime minister, on Tuesday said the government should raise excise taxes on alcohol and tobacco at a pace faster than inflation.</description>
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	<title>SWM first-quarter revenue rose nearly 12 per cent</title>
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	<date>Thu, 03 May 2012 00:00:00 +0100</date>
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	<description> SWM International boosted sales by 11.8 per cent in the business quarter ending 31 March, but reported lower profit due to impairment charges from a contract change with Philip Morris USA, the compan...</description>
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