Daily Clove Cigarettes News Update
I thought the assumption of Islam was to follow the laws laid down in the Koran?
New laws against yoga (well in Malaysia), and now a look at anti-smoking. I do not know … I just find it amusing.
The MUI should spend more time regulating and defusing the rampant hard-line Islamist movements in Indonesia, by teaching [...]
The Indonesian Shopping Center Association (APPBI) will help the city administration enforce smoking restrictions by asking its members to provide smoking rooms on their premises.
Andreas Kartawinata, APPBI Jakarta chairman, said around 80 percent of APPBI members had smoking rooms.
He said he would send letters to the remaining members to encourage them to adhere to the [...]
The continued might of Indonesia’s far-reaching tobacco industry is being questioned, with the House of Representatives and an influential ulema group calling for anti-smoking laws.
Legislator Atte Sugandi of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s Democratic Party said Monday a bill being pushed for deliberation by the House would curb tobacco-related advertising, promoting, sponsorships, production and sales.
“Once it [...]
Indonesia’s top Islamic body will debate whether to issue a fatwa banning Muslims from smoking when it holds a national gathering early next year, a senior official said on Monday.
Religious councils in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, had previously agreed to ban smoking by children and in public areas, but have not implemented [...]
Despite the economic downturn, Gareth Davis cuts a relaxed figure. The chief executive of Imperial Tobacco - a self-described “committed smoker” - believes that the prospect of a stay-at-home winter is good news for his company.
“People will go out less and that will benefit us,” he said. “They’ll be sitting in with a DVD, a [...]
British American Tobacco Plc, Europe’s largest cigarette maker, won a U.K. court ruling in a tax case that the company said may allow it to recover as much as 1.2 billion pounds (.9 billion). Other companies may also benefit.
High Court Justice Launcelot Henderson in London backed a 2006 decision by a European Union court and [...]
The Treasury faces having to pay out up to £7billion after the High Court ruled today in a landmark case that UK firms’ dividends on foreign earnings should not have been taxed.
British American Tobacco chief executive Paul Adams was celebrating a possible £1.2billion windfall today following the decision by Mr Justice Henderson.
BAT launched the test [...]
SOME people would say it was tantamount to foxes asking to be consulted about the welfare of chickens. But the global tobacco industry, while no longer denying that its products do terrible damage, has long insisted that in any discussion about how to limit the medical effects of the weed, it is a legitimate partner.
That [...]
The Treasury is potentially facing a £5 billion black hole after suffering a High Court defeat at the hands of British American Tobacco yesterday.
The ruling comes days after Alistair Darling, the Chancellor, admitted that Britain’s public finances had deteriorated sharply since his March Budget and unveiled plans to borrow billions of pounds.
BAT, the world’s second-largest [...]
Taxpayers face a multi-billion pound bill after the High Court ruled yesterday that British American Tobacco might have to be given £1.2bn in tax rebates. The world’s second-largest cigarette maker is in line for the windfall after a judge supported its claim that dividends received from its EU subsidiaries should be exempt from taxation in [...]
It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake.
— Mark Twain
Indonesia Headline News
