On Monday morning to his financial support of this nation's struggle against the leading cigarette companies commit Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York telephoned the Uruguayan President José Mujica.
Mr. Bloomberg, billionaire with a long record of smokers activism made the announcement after a Front page article on Sunday in the New York Times erschien.Der article detailing some lobbying and marketing court activities of multinational tobacco companies.
Mr. Bloomberg announced on Monday afternoon a press conference that he million direct would some of the $375 to Uruguay legal defense he has set aside in a philanthropy fighting smoking. In a press release he call no precise figure.
Uruguay, regarded as the world's leader in anti smoking laws, cigarette is an affiliate-Washington based World Bank of Philip Morris International verklagt.Die giant objects, two new Uruguayan law. 80 Percent of the front and back of cigarette includes packages with graphic warning health. The more than a kind of every brand of cigarette, such as Marlboro red, gold and silver other prohibitions.
The suit has anti smoking forces global gathering. Interpreted it as an attempt to intimidate Uruguay and send a message to other developing countries on the eve of Conference of tobacco control officials from 171 Nations.The Conference in Punta del Este, Uruguay, plans sponsored by the WHO to recommend policies to enforce a wide smoking contract.
In the press release Mr. Bloomberg money "Uruguayan Government officials will support by legal research and expertise." world launches public awareness campaigns, mass media and hot dip galvanizing support and public opinion
Peter Nixon, a spokesman for Philip Morris International, said in recent interviews that the action was necessary, to which he said message in February regardless of the Conference which was tobacco control officials, company's trademarks and intellectual property to Schützen.Seine.The suit seeks not unspecified damages.
The size of the health warning, Mr. Nixon, said "the previous ones were 50 percent and we thought this was angemessen.sobald take it up to 80 percent, there is no place for trademarks shown werden.so we that went too far thought."The limit for brands, added he forced to remove a number of brands Philip Morris from the market.
A group of non-profit health organizations bought a full-page ad in Uruguay's leading newspaper Monday the President of the country until thanks to stand Tabakunternehmen.Philip Morris International's $66 billion annual turnover is twice the size of the gross domestic product of Uruguay.
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