Brexit opens the door to tougher anti-smoking measures

No-deal Brexit likely to raise cigarette and tobacco prices.
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No-deal Brexit likely to raise cigarette and tobacco prices.
The UK slips from first to fourth in 2019 world league table measuring government success in preventing tobacco companies from interfering in policy.
During a meeting of signatories to the world's first public health treaty, Philip Morris International and its allies pushed pro-vaping messages via Twitter.
New research shows which tax avoidance methods the world’s four largest publicly traded tobacco companies are using to minimise their tax bill.
STOP, a global tobacco industry watchdog, has been producing regular briefings tracking tobacco industry behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rosemary Hiscock, Rob Branston and Anna Gilmore explain why tobacco industry claims about plain packaging have been proved false.
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