Australia Says ‘Big Tobacco’ Will Try to Skirt Plain-Pack Law

government said itexpects cigarette makers to try to skirt a branding ban due tostart Dec. 1, after“We know that Big Tobacco will use every trick in the bookto try and get around the new requirements,” Tanya Plibersek,health minister, said in an e-mailed statement. The ministrywill foil such efforts by monitoring packaging elementsincluding gloss and tone while poring over marks, she said.Under the...

Imperial Tobacco uses its whats on inside that counts slogan to challenge Oz Govt.s plain packaging

While the first set of cigarettes in plain packaging have hit major supermarkets in Australia, a tobacco firm has directly challenged the Australian Governments order by not complying with strict new rules....