Tobacco giants threaten to 'undermine' Ireland's economy in an attempt to block plain-packaging laws

Independent.ie, here. 

Philip Morris ordered to pay Australia millions in costs for plain packaging case

Smh.com.au, here. 

WTO ruling could light the way to a tobacco-free future

M. Rimmer, here. See also here.

Health Law, IP and Human Rights: Standardised Packaging of Tobacco

S. Palmer, Presentation here (slides and video)

UK High Court on Plain Packaging

"The" Expert

Here.
Worthwhile read for your week-end.

Read also here.



"I earn a living fronting an organization that kills one thousand two hundred human beings a day; twelve hundred people. We're talking two jumbo jet plane loads of men, women, and children. I mean there's Attila, Genghis, and me, Nick Naylor the face of cigarettes, the colonel Sanders of nicotine. This is where I work, the Academy of Tobacco Studies. It was established by seven gentlemen you may recognize from C-Span. These guys realized quick if they were gonna claim cigarettes were not addictive they better have proof. This is the man they rely on, Erhardt Von Grupten Mundt. They found him in Germany. I won't go into the details. He's been testing the link between nicotine and lung cancer for thirty years, and hasn't found any conclusive results. The man's a genius, he could disprove gravity."
Thank you for smoking

Study of the Impact of the Tobacco Plain Packaging Measure on Smoking Prevalence in Australia

T. Chipty, here.

Australian government wins plain packaging case against Philip Morris Asia

Smh, here.

"We know that plain packaging works"

WHO, here. 

Tobacco Plain Packaging Discussion Lights Up Again At WTO

IP-watch, here.

Tobacco industry waged ‘David and Goliath’ campaign against EU

Independent.co.uk, here.
Report (The revision of the 2014 European tobacco products directive: an analysis of the tobacco industry’ s attempts to ‘break the health silo’) here.  

Tobacco giant issues legal threat over plain packaging

IrishTimes, here.

John Oliver on plain-packaging

Video here. 

Australian Smokers Now Support Plain Packaging Of Tobacco

Businessinsider.com.au, here. 

Tobacco firms win legal right to challenge EU rules

Bbc.com, here. 

Australia Accepts Indonesia WTO Dispute On Tobacco Packaging; Calls For Five Disputes To Be Joined

IP-Watch.org, here. 

Tobacco packaging and intellectual property law

Aclatterofthelaw.com, here.

U-turn could result in plain packaging on cigarettes by 2015

TheGuardian.com, here.

A very bad week for tobacco industry opposition to standard packaging

Tobaccounpacked.wordpress.com, here. 

European Parliament says ‘No’ to plain packaging for tobacco products

The IPKat, here.