Blowing smoke: tobacco is not, properly speaking, a social problem at all, but the growing anti-smoking movement is quickly becoming one

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An increasing number of people view smoking as a health hazard, and most believe that there should be certain laws and restrictions against smoking, but some seem to be crossing a certain social line and accusing the tobacco industry of various evil intentions and actions.

Social aspects, Laws, regulations and rules, Smoking

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Big tobacco's about-turn

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Philip Morris and RJR Nabisco are likely to agree to a sweeping settlement with anti-smoking forces in the US that includes changes that would make tobacco advertising more honest. Tobacco companies should also voluntarily apply the same standards in marketing overseas.

Editorial, Philip Morris Inc., RJR Nabisco Inc., RJR

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The kretek man: Western tobacco makers consider emerging markets as theirs for the taking. One Indonesian is planning a counter-attack

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Putera Sampoerna is fighting US tobacco makers, who are looking to Asia, Africa and Latin America for new markets. Putera, 50, hopes to market kreteks, or clove cigarettes, throughout Asia through his company, Hanjaya Mandala Sampoerna.

Management, International aspects, Column, Biography, Indonesia, Clove cigarettes, Putera Sampoerna, Hanjaya Mandala Sampoerna

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