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Booze labels split public
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 27/02/2024
» The government is planning to introduce a new regulation that would require the makers of alcoholic beverages to put large, graphic images on every bottle and can they produce to warn the public of the dangers of drinking.
How Peta infiltrated major fashion shows
New York Times, Published on 07/10/2023
» PARIS — A young woman crouched in the tall grass, waiting for her moment to strike.
Tuna-obsessed Tunisia in a fish funk
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 23/07/2023
» Perhaps you are one of the more than 5,000 subscribers to "Popping Tins," an email newsletter devoted exclusively to tinned seafood. Perhaps you belong to a tinned-fish-of-the-month club, or have leafed through a tinned-fish-focused cookbook that tells you how best to cook a food already cooked.
BAT to pay over $600 mn for violating NKorea sanctions
AFP, Published on 26/04/2023
» WASHINGTON - British American Tobacco has agreed to pay more than $600 million to settle charges it sold cigarette materials to North Korea for years in violation of US sanctions, the US Justice Department announced Tuesday.
A burning issue
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 16/09/2019
» One image shows a man lying on a hospital bed with his eyes rolled back. Another depicts the inside a person's mouth in a state of horrific rot, with the words "Smoking causes mouth cancer". There's also one with a little schoolgirl wearing a dust mask on her face, saying: "Daddy, if you love me, please quit smoking."
Plain cigarette packs set for sale
News, Post Reporters, Published on 01/09/2019
» All cigarettes sold in Thailand will come in standardised, plain packaging starting on Sept 12, as part of a continuing campaign to reduce tobacco consumption.
Plain tobacco packaging mandatory from Sept 12
Published on 31/08/2019
» All cigarettes sold in Thailand will come in standardised, plain packaging starting on Sept 12 as part of the continuing campaign to reduce tobacco consumption.
Tourism trap
Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 22/07/2019
» Southeast Asia is home to some of the most beautiful beaches in the world, making the region a tourism magnet. But truly unspoiled beaches are getting harder to find outside of Instagram.
Changing the image of 'evil'
Business, Published on 03/02/2018
» As far as the masses are concerned, tobacco companies are evil. This has not thrown off the tobacco industry's efforts to wage an incarnate fight for consumers' and regulators' hearts at least since 1964, when the surgeon-general of the US declared that cigarettes had a detrimental effect on health.
Philip Morris bets on a smoke-free future
Business, Published on 16/01/2018
» Philip Morris International is switching its strategy to emphasise its heat-not-burn tobacco products, which, according to studies submitted to the US Food and Drug Administration, contain less harmful agents than traditional cigarettes.