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ACTA and Big Tobacco: legal crime vs. illegal crime

Big Tobacco now mimes a socially responsible business company and puts its yellowy discolored finger in the ACTA-pie. The tendency is clear: tobacco industry more and more uses international treaties to put governments under pressure.

Report on the World Conference

The World Conference on Tobacco or Health has brought many new ideas, giving renewed impetus to the work of Unfairtobacco.org. The only drawback was that the conference declaration failed to make an important statement of solidarity towards tobacco farmers.

Alternatives to tobacco farming: meeting in Geneva

Unfairtobacco.org’s Laura Graen attended the third meeting of the WHO’s working group on sustainable alternatives to tobacco growing. Summing up her overall impression, she states: “What came out in the recommendation paper developed in the end is vague”.