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Categories: · Business International: · U.K.	OFT fines U.K. tobacco manufacturers, retailers Source:http://www.marketwatch.com/,2010-04-14 The Office of Fair Trading said Friday that two tobacco manufacturers and ten retailers engaged in unlawful practices in relation to retail prices for tobacco products in the U.K., and has imposed fines totalling 225 million pounds ($348.8 million). The tobacco manufacturers involved are Imperial Tobacco and Gallaher, and the retailers are Wal-Mart Stores' Asda unit, The Co-operative Group, First Quench, Morrisons, One Stop Stores, Safeway, Sainsbury's, Shell Somerfield and TM Retail. The 225 million pound fine represents the largest total fine imposed by the OFT to date in a case under the Competition Act 1998.
Categories: · Others International: · USA	Tobacco curbs Source:http://www.courier-journal.com/,2010-04-09 Declaring that “the historic rule we're issuing today will help our kids to stay healthy by making it harder for the tobacco companies to target them with harmful and addictive products,” U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced on Thursday that the Food and Drug Administration will enforce sweeping changes in the marketing and selling of tobacco products beginning June 22.
Categories: · Crime International: · U.K.	11m cigarettes smuggle gang jailed Source:http://www.expressandstar.com/,2010-04-05 Members of an international criminal gang from the Black Country and Staffordshire involved in smuggling around 11million cigarettes were today jailed.
Categories: · Tobacco control International: · U.K.	Should tobacco be banned from store shelves Source:http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/,2010-03-18 THE displays of cigarettes which have for so long formed the backdrop to millions of counters in newsagents and convenience stores throughout the land will soon be a thing of the past.
Categories: · Tobacco control International: · USA	Senecas ask Obama to veto cigarette mail ban Source:http://www.timesunion.com/,2010-03-12 The Seneca Indian Nation has written to President Barack Obama, asking him to veto a bill that would prohibit cigarette shipments through the mail.