Public Health: tobacco companies accuse Australia of stealing their brand value
Australia's Federal Government has ordered that, from December this year, all cigarettes sold in the country must be in plain brown boxes (with large colour photographs of the harm smoking causes) and the company and product name in pre-determined, standardised fonts. The tobacco companies are steaming, if not actually smoking.
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