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BY ALAN OSBORN
CIGARETTES have changed a great deal in recent years though not all smokers may realise by just how much. Once it was commonplace to roll your own, using local tobaccos. Today the market is dominated by filters and international brands, many of them ranking among the world’s best-known consumer products.…

BTY MARK ROWE
THE TOBACCO industry has not been exempt from the problem of young children working in developing countries. But in the past 12 months BAT has taken significant steps to address the question of child labour. Earlier this year it helped launch the Elimination of Child Labour in Tobacco Growing Foundation, which supports community-based initiatives to address the issue.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
ALMOST three quarters of Britain’s firms carry out little or no investigation into workplace accidents according to a study whose results were revealed at a major safety conference today.

Dr David Embrey, managing director of consultancy firm Human Reliability Associates (HRA), told the RoSPA Safety and Health at Work Congress 2002 that the findings would fuel pressure for legislation requiring all organisations to carry out proper accident inquiries.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
A GROUNDBREAKING and comprehensive resolution on tourism passed by the EU Council of Ministers last week, which contained a wide range of policy goals and plans for action, has been given a lukewarm welcome by the European travel industry.…

BY MARK ROWE
IT may have taken riots in Seattle and Genoa but the World Trade Organisation has finally come out all compassionate. The theory is simple. Most of the world’s poor are in developing nations. Many of those in greatest poverty are farmers.…

BY MARK ROWE
BRITISH museums and historic buildings are being encouraged to bid for funding from a GBPounds 80 million financial support package launched by the European Union, designed to build links between neighbouring EU countries.

Its grant awards will be focused on projects that have economic, ecological and social benefits.…

BY RICHARD HURST, in Johannesburg
Motor manufacturer Daimler-Chrysler South Africa has announced that its franchised dealers are to introduce so-called black empowerment partners into their businesses.

The company’s dealer development manger Theo Swanepoel said that his group’s dealers have agreed to take on black African controlled business partners, commanding significant shareholdings.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE BRITISH government’s decision to exempt coke, (when it is used as a chemical reductant in steel production), and some other fuels with non-energy “dual-uses” from its Climate Change Levy has been approved by the European Commission. Brussels said it was giving a go-ahead following a “revised notification” by the UK addressing the Commission’s concerns about competition and the environment.…

BY MARK ROWE
THAILAND has threatened to launch a disputes proceeding involving the United States at the World Trade Organisation if Washington goes ahead with plans to grant tariff privileges to footwear exports from South American countries. The US is to waive duties on footwear in ex-change for co-operation in suppressing drugs in the region but the Thais say their footwear industry will suffer heavily.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE US Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), has reissued a cautionary warning to users of 15-seat vans, popular for groups, such as sports teams, going on outings, following the release of new in-house research about rollovers.…