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He was on the Board of Directors of the Altria Group (previously Philip Morris; he resigned in April 2006) and Alcatel. Slim currently sits on the Board of Directors for Philip Morris International.

Posted on July 31st, 2010 under International Cigarettes. Comments: None

The business of selling cigarettes is increasingly concentrated in the hands of five tobacco companies that collectively control almost 90% of the world’s cigarette market, four of which are publicly traded corporations. The economic activities of these cigarette manufacturers can be monitored through their reports to shareholders and other public documents. Reports for 2008 show [...]

Posted on July 30th, 2010 under International Cigarettes. Comments: None

Bringing lessons from Indonesia to the world
15 Jul, 10 | by bfreeman
Ruth Malone, Editor in Chief
Indonesia is one of the world’s most difficult places to do tobacco control, with a strong tobacco industry presence and a lot of political resistance from tobacco growers and their allies. Huge tobacco billboards are everywhere in the city of [...]

Posted on July 30th, 2010 under International Cigarettes. Comments: None

To help officially launch the Tobacco Control Blog, this month’s Editorial has also been posted to the blog and is ready for your comments. The aim of this blog is to stimulate debate, generate ideas and explore new and, at times, controversial ideas. Increasing the opportunities for interaction between readers, authors, and editors is essential [...]

Posted on July 30th, 2010 under International Cigarettes. Comments: None

July 27, 2010 Letter from Diane Canova
Dear Partners,
Partnership for Prevention and ActionToQuit were very pleased with the announcement in mid-July of new regulations under the Affordable Health Care Act requiring private health plans to cover evidence-based preventive services and to eliminate cost-sharing for preventive care. Among the services to be covered are tobacco cessation interventions [...]

Posted on July 30th, 2010 under International Cigarettes. Comments: None

Editorial: Word wars and tobacco control: saying what needs saying that we don’t yet know how to say, or saying it better
Relation between newspaper coverage of “light” cigarette litigation and beliefs about “lights” among American adolescents and young adults: the impact on risk perceptions and quitting intentions
Attitudes, practices and beliefs towards worksite smoking among administrators [...]

Posted on July 30th, 2010 under International Cigarettes. Comments: None

Uruguay has promised to water down anti-smoking laws after pressure from the tobacco giant Philip Morris, prompting accusations of corporate bullying.
The government said it would amend legislation which slaps large health warnings on cigarette packets and bans the sale of those branded as “light”.
The laws, among the toughest in the world, were introduced four years [...]

Posted on July 30th, 2010 under International Cigarettes. Comments: None

The clamour for higher tobacco duty from global governments in the last year should therefore have been a boon to spivs hawking cheap cigarettes the world over. Except of course on a global scale, this simply isn’t the case. In a year when governments across the world have been raising their excise rates on tobacco [...]

Posted on July 30th, 2010 under International Cigarettes. Comments: None

The Norwegian Cancer Society has provided financial support for FCA activities in including seed grants. The budget below amounts to .500
In 2009 a total of 10 organizations have received seed grants for various projects as listed below.
1 People’s Health Movement (PHM), Gabon 2009 ,000
2 Vision for Alternative Development Ghana 2009 $ 5,000
3 Campaign For [...]

Posted on July 30th, 2010 under International Cigarettes. Comments: None