AFP Interview: Vested interests, ignorance aid China's tobacco industry
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China, home to one in three of the world's smokers, is set to see a huge rise in its health care costs as a lack of education and the government's vested interests frustrate prevention efforts, the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned.
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WASHINGTON - The nation's biggest tobacco companies worked together for decades to mislead the public about the dangers of smoking, a federal lawyer alleged Tuesday at the start of a civil racketeering trial in which the government seeks a record $280 billion from the industry.    In his opening statement, Justice Department attorney Frank Marine said starting in the 1960s the industry spent hundreds of millions of dollars on organizations set up to counter the growing body of scientific evidence linking smoking to cancer...
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Peru recently made a decision that appears destined to result in the equivalent of a global &quot;no smoking&quot; sign, a development that spells yet more trouble for tobacco companies.
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It may be the factory to the world, but China's consumers aren't exactly splashing out. And credit cards are not widely accepted
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Chinese cigarette packs will have skulls, blackened teeth or diseased lungs printed on them in the latest effort to tackle smoking, but one expert said the images may actually attract younger people to take up the habit.
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In China, where coal is king, the governmentâs push to increase the use of alternative energies faces obstacles, from bureaucracy to bottlenecks in manufacturing.
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China has suspended all new cigarette and tobacco foreign joint ventures, state media reported Friday, raising doubts over a claim by British American Tobacco that it has approval to manufacture cigarettes on the Chinese mainland.
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HALIFAX (CP) - The illegal trade in stolen and smuggled tobacco, once the work of lone, street-corner thugs, is a source of growing concern for police across the country now that organized crime is involved, a senior RCMP officer says.
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Philip Morris, one of the world&#39;s leading tobacco manufacturers, was involved in research into the health effects of smoking 30 years ago but did not reveal data on the
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Excerpt from report by By Feng Jianhua headlined: "A Polluter's paradise?" in English by Chinese publication Beijing Review on 14 September  The 60-year-old man, surnamed Chen, faces an awkward situation.
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Businesses could profit from cleaning up China's horrendous pollution.
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U.S. cigarette makers adapted their  advertising and internal communications as safety concerns grew  and legal ways to promote their products were restricted, a  marketing expert testified for the government on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON - Tobacco companies, desperate to maintain their hold on tens of millions of American smokers, worked together for decades to deceive the public about the dangers of cigarettes and to encourage the young to start puffing, government lawyers said Tuesday at the start of a racketeering trial.    Justice Department lawyers pointed to numerous statements by industry executives that created doubt among smokers about whether the habit was harmful and whether they really needed to kick it...
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A REPORTER called recently to ask me what consumers could do to protect themselves against potentially toxic products from China.
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A former tobacco industry executive testified Wednesday that top cigarette makers for years have chosen not to make their products safer despite knowing how to.
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The majority of smokers don&#39;t know the facts about what&#39;s in their cigarettes and how these ingredients may be harming them.
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NEW YORK  - The tobacco industry for many years claimed that it was unaware of biological evidence that smoking is harmful to health, but that was untrue according to a medical journal report.