Big Tobacco, trade and the legal assault on foreign nations | Opinion

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October 28, 2015

It looks like Big Tobacco has a big problem on its hands in the form of the recently concluded trade agreement between the eleven nations of the Pacific Rim and the U.S. Why? The Trans-Pacific Partnership, TPP, the full text of which has yet to be released, appears to treat tobacco as the unique, noxious weed that it is.

October 19, NJ.com (Linda Stamato, Guest Columnist)

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