The Australian government is warning other governments to spur advances made by the giants in the tobacco industry to represent them in the World Trade Organization to put forth an intellectual property dispute in the WTO (as only countries can put forth claims) that would be an obstacle in addition to potential court battles over Australia’s proposed set of anti-tobacco...

The British government’s Health Secretary Andrew Lansley announced government plans that would ban the displaying of tobacco products in large shops and later, all shops starting in the month of April in the years 2012 and 2015 respectively for the good of public health. Also, plans may include laws that require tobacco products to be plainly packaged with health...