Big Tobacco Fights New Regulations – All the big tobacco companies are fighting new government regulations that force them to use plain packaging for cigarettes. This comes on the back of big tax hikes on all cigarettes. BATA has argued that making cigarette packets a matt olive hue with plain typed labels on them would [...]
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Greece Agrees to $30 Billion Deal – Greece has agreed a package of austerity measures under which it aims to cut its budget deficit by 30 billion euros over three years on top of measures already agreed, Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou said on Sunday. Under the deal with the European Union and International Monetary Fund [...]
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