Tag: Phillips Morris

• Friday, May 31st 2019 - 09:20 UTC

  Brazil 's Attorney General sues Philips Morris and British American Tobacco

  

  Brazil is following the U.S. and Canada in taking on Big Tobacco, becoming the first country in Latin America to sue cigarette makers over the financial toll of smoking. Brazil’s attorney general’s office, known as the AGU, last week sued the two largest cigarette manufacturers in the country, Phillip Morris International and British American Tobacco, to cover the costs of treating patients with 26 tobacco-related diseases over the past five years.

• Saturday, December 3rd 2016 - 09:41 UTC

  Old-fashioned cigarette doomed, says world's largest tobacco company

  

  A historic lawsuit loss to Uruguay over tobacco-related cancer damages and other technological developments have Philip Morris focusing on new alternatives. “I think the time will come when we will have enough acceptance of these alternative products to begin to propose, along with the governments, a gradual elimination of conventional cigars,” the company CEO Andre Calantzopoulos announced.

• Wednesday, September 21st 2016 - 09:37 UTC

  Non communicable diseases make poverty even worse, Uruguayan president tells UN

  

  Addressing the United Nations General Assembly, Uruguay’s President Tabare Vazquez on Tuesday warned against non-communicable diseases, such as cardiovascular ailments, cancer, diabetes and chronic pulmonary pathologies, which he said are the main causes of death particularly in low- and middle-income countries.

• Wednesday, November 5th 2014 - 22:43 UTC

  Uruguay, “a role model for the region and the world” in tobacco policies

  

  The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) is supporting the Government of Uruguay as it defends its tobacco control policies against claims brought by the Philip Morris tobacco company.

• Tuesday, May 13th 2014 - 02:38 UTC

  Uruguay agrees to take 8 to 12 Guantanamo prisoners; announcement in 'a couple of weeks'

  

  The administration of president Jose Mujica is willing to take eight to twelve of Guantanamo prisoners as refugees in Uruguay and this could happen once the US Senate approves a bill to that purpose, according to sources from the ministerial delegation currently in Washington.

• Monday, May 12th 2014 - 23:56 UTC

  Mujica asks Obama support for scientific knowledge and to combat smoking

  

  In an enjoyable press conference at the White House Uruguay's President Jose Mujica spoke about the increasing importance for people in the US to be bilingual, the dangers of smoking and his interest in having access to U.S. knowledge and professors. President Barrack Obama praised the Uruguayan leader's 'extraordinary' credibility and leadership in democracy and human rights issues.

• Monday, March 19th 2012 - 23:23 UTC

  Philip Morris sues Uruguay cigarette-labeling claiming violation of investment treaty

  

  Measures taken by Uruguay to deter smokers have drawn a legal challenge by one of the world’s largest tobacco companies under a treaty designed to protect foreign investors, according to the Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development.

• Monday, October 24th 2011 - 06:41 UTC

  Philip Morris shuts down plant in Uruguay because of anti-smoking policies

  

  The US tobacco giant Philip Morris said on Friday it shut down its plant in Uruguay because the country's anti-smoking policies make business unprofitable.