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Friday, May 20, 2016

Plain packaging comes to the UK

Thanks to Sky
http://news.sky.com/story/1699123/new-cigarette-packaging-rules-come-into-force
http://news.sky.com/story/1698790/tobacco-firms-lose-court-challenge-over-packaging
and tutor2u
http://www.tutor2u.net/economics/blog/new-cigarette-packaging-regulations-comes-in-to-force-today?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Economics%20daily%20digest%20Sat%2021st%20May%202016&utm_content=Economics%20daily%20digest%20Sat%2021st%20May%202016+CID_ad60ee06a31cd923ce9c770aa742219f&utm_source=CampMonitor&utm_term=New%20cigarette%20packaging%20regulations%20comes%20in%20to%20force%20today%20New%20regulations%20on%20cigarette%20packaging%20and%20other%20restrictions%20within%20the%20cigarette%20market%20comes%20in%20to%20force%20today%20Click%20here%20for%20the%20Sky%20News%20article%20on%20the%20regulations%20and%20here%20for


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