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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 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 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
MYSTERIOUS species, which could provide the cure cancer, might be wiped-out by researchers exploring for unknown life in deep seas unit by the sun, the United Nations University is warning. A study has called for international rules on bio-prospecting, so high-tech submarines do not damage sensitive eco-systems that are barely understood.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COMPREHENSIVE European Union (EU) register of industrial pollution will be created by 2009, following the approval of the idea by the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers. This European Release and Transfer Register (PRTR) will contain data on more than 91 polluting substances released into the EU’s air, water and land from 65 industrial activities.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE LONG-RUNNING World Trade Organisation (WTO) row between Japan and the United States over American anti-dumping duties on certain hot-rolled steel products appears to have been solved, with Japan suspending plans to secure approval for retaliatory duties on American imports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRENCH scientists have pinpointed the area of the brain, which is particularly responsive to nicotine addiction, whilst identifying how the chemical hunts down receptors that are particularly susceptible to its effects. Experiments on mice at France’s Institut Pasteur have shown that nicotine dependence is linked to a specific molecule of brain receptors detecting and reacting to nicotine, which are located in the ‘ventral tegmental’ area of the brain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE COSMETICS industry has become a key focus for cooperation between regulators in the United States and the European Union (EU), following an EU-US summit staged in Washington this month (June). A detailed communiqué said that cooperation would be ramped up between the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the industry/cosmetics unit of the European Commission’s enterprise directorate-general (DG).…

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.…