Big Tobacco's Pacific Trade-Pact Fight
Big Tobacco and the battle for the Pacific Rim
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Images of rotten teeth and cancerous lungs on cigarette packs in Australia have commanded much of the recent attention in the global war between health advocates and the tobacco industry. But next year a battle over a little-known trade treaty could discourage other nations from adopting tobacco controls as stringent as Australia’s plain packaging law.