Tobacco tax 'boosts smuggler profits' The Australian | A PROPOSED hike in cigarette tax will make the importation of illegal tobacco more profitable, potentially enticing new players into what is already a booming criminal market. | Customs service national manager for investigations Richard Janeczko said it was "obvious" that further hikes ...
Talks aim to stub out illicit tobacco trade Swissinfo English The growing illegal trade in cigarettes costs governments billions of dollars, causes huge health problems and finances militant groups, say activists. | The claims were made as 130 countries resumed talks in Geneva this week on expanding an international anti-smoking treaty to clamp down on the tra...
Emergency reward Inquirer | THE THING WE LIKE BEST ABOUT THE Department of Finance is that it thinks this cute administration will get a … well, you know … term extension. | As everybody knows, except perhaps the busy presidential candidates, the DOF has been pushing for chan...
Malawi tobacco output undershoots target The Guardian * Tobacco output short of projections but up on last year * Sector provides livelihood for 2 mln of 13 mln people LILONGWE, July 11 (Reuters) - Malawi's tobacco output fell 26,000 tonnes short of the projected figure for the 2008/09 season due to bad...
Study urges ban on military tobacco sales The Examiner Comment RSS Email Print | Military personnel who buy cigarettes may lose their tobacco discount or ability to purchase cigarettes at military grocery stores altogether. The recommendation comes from a newly released report from the Ins...
Smuggled tobacco seized in raids BBC News | Thousands of smuggled cigarettes have been seized in a crackdown by new inland detection teams working for HM Revenue and Customs in Devon. | Nearly 6,500 cigarettes and more than 1kg (2.2lb) of rolling tobacco were found during the raids in Barnst...
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Developing world faces black market cigarette plague The Guardian | Governments plan fightback against smugglers who benefit from corruption and lax policing | A growing global trade in black market cigarettes is killing tens of thousands of peop...
Judge dismisses Nisqually cigarette sale lawsuit The Examiner Comments TACOMA, Wash. (Map, News) - A federal court judge has upheld an arrangement between Washington state and the Squaxin Island Tribe that allows cigarette sales at Frank's Landing, a small Indian community between Fort Lewis and Olympia. | For ...
Judge dismisses Nisqually cigarette sale lawsuit The News Tribune | A federal court judge has upheld an arrangement between Washington state and the Squaxin Island Tribe that allows cigarette sales at Frank's Landing, a small Indian community between Fort Lewis and Olympia. | For years a smoke shop at Frank's Landi...
FACTBOX - Smoking bans around the world The Star | (Reuters) - Turkey rolls out the next phase of a smoking ban on July 19, extending the prohibition to cafes, bars and restaurants as it aims to curb the habit in a country where 22 million people, half the adult male population, smoke. | Die-hard smokers in Cyprus will also be finally be hit when one of the last EU smoking havens imposes ban on p...