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BY MONICA DOBIE
EXPOSING teens to anti-tobacco advertising in the United States has been proved to reduce smoking rates and increased anti-smoking attitudes, according to a study published in the USA’s Archives of Paediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. Research indicated that 18.6% of students in states where anti-smoking ads were frequently shown reported having smoked in the past 30 days compared with 26.7% of those in markets with no exposure to anti-tobacco advertisements.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE USA launch of a new “safer” cigarette called Fact, whose filter supposedly cuts out harmful chemicals without impacting on taste, has been delayed because of fears its marketing could mislead consumers into thinking it was “safe”. The cigarette – a PREP (potentially reduced-exposure product) – was to be manufactured by an independent tobacco company in North Carolina, US: the Flue-Cured Tobacco Cooperative Stabilization Corporation.…

BY MARK ROWE
CAN insurers help reduce risk by funding initiatives for the emergency services? Companies are increasingly looking at how they can support emergency services and, thereby, lessen the impact of insurance claims. The thinking is by helping to improve the efficiency of emergency services, the impact of natural and manmade disasters, including terrorism, can be mitigated in terms of people making insurance claims.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SECOND attempt is being made by the European Commission to criminalise counterfeiting and piracy across the European Union (EU), following the rejection of similar plans by the European Parliament last year. The Commission has re-tabled legislation insisting EU member states impose jail terms or significant fines on offenders, whilst ensuring their police and customs officers can confiscate fake goods and close businesses involved in their manufacture.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SECOND attempt is being made by the European Commission to criminalise counterfeiting and piracy across the European Union (EU), following the rejection of similar plans by the European Parliament last year. The Commission has re-tabled legislation insisting EU member states impose jail terms or significant fines on offenders, whilst ensuring their police and customs officers can confiscate fake goods and close businesses involved in their manufacture.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States has been told by a World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel to review its re-imposition of anti-dumping duties on Mexican oil country tubular goods. Mexico had claimed that the USA erred in concluding during a 2000-2001 sunset review that without the duties, originally imposed in 1995, Mexican exporters would dump cut-priced cheap oil country tubular goods on the US market.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A NEW “safer” cigarette sporting a filter cutting out harmful chemicals will be launched in the United States later this month, under the brand Fact. Although its filter – created by Hong Kong biotech company Filigent – looks like standard filters, it is treated with a patented chemicals process blocking cancer-causing toxins.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States and Russia have signed an agreement guaranteeing access to Russian markets by American poultry, beef and pork producers. It creates special tariff quotas for US exporters, with higher duties being levied on excess shipments. The deal also covers the allocation and distribution of import licences, plus sanitary issues.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has ploughed ahead with approving a third money laundering directive, proving that it can sometimes act decisively and – say some critics – bloody-mindedly. Keith Nuthall reports.

JUST weeks before EU presidents and prime ministers infamously failed at a summit in Brussels to agree a future budget, European justice and home affairs ministers approved a key anti-crime law.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A NEW “safer” cigarette sporting a filter that cuts out harmful chemicals will be launched in the United States later this month.

The product will be marketed under the brand Fact, and although its filter – created by Hong Kong biotech company Filigent – looks like any other cigarette filter, it has been treated with a patented chemical process that screens out a variety of cancer-causing toxins.…