The tobacco industry is using the same tired arguments
against plain packaging as with smokefree law — namely that it would have a major impact on small businesses like me.
Not exact matches
We believe that our target group can help Indian organizations such as the International Union
against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease and the Public Health Foundation of India to work towards
plain packaging.
Australia is already having a painful experience with this type of clause — tobacco company Philip Morris Asia has commenced arbitration
against the Australian government over its new
plain packaging for tobacco products laws using a similar clause in an investment treaty between Australia and Hong Kong.
After the presentation, one of the other pupils, a small
plain girl whose nose was slightly flattened as though having been pressed
against a window pane too long, rushed forward and pushed a small
package into my hand.
If the prospect of a personal injury claim
against an e-cigarette manufacturer seems too remote a prospect at present, it is perhaps more certain that «big tobacco» will be back in court over the next 12 months, with BAT promising to resist any legislation for
plain packaging of conventional cigarettes, and to counter moves to more closely regulate e-cigarette marketing.