Libs take tobacco money

[Jovial Monk]

and how!

Country/Group company

Payments
(GBP equivalent)

Australia: British American Tobacco Australia Ltd
111,123

Canada: Imperial Tobacco Canada Limited
1,068

Solomon Islands: Solomon Islands Tobacco Company Ltd
2,054

Total
114,245

(Note: £ equivalent based on the same average currency conversion rates as used for the Group Income Statement in the Annual Report 2010.)

See also
Standards of Business Conduct

http://www.bat.com/group/sites/uk__3mnf ... ment&SKN=1

Now tell me the pushers in suits aren’t worried about plain packaging! As I said before, they must have done trials on it and found it decreased maybe not so much sales but the takeup of smoking by young people—they obviously need a constant supply of new customers because their stinking drug KILLS!

[Ethnic]

Why the hell would you take money from a tobacco company? Surely they're not that cash-strapped.

[Jovial Monk]

Libs have been taking tobacco money all along, Labor returned the last cheque they go back in early 90s IIRC.

The pushers in suits are worried about plain packaging.

[Jovial Monk]

Hmmmm money badly spent by the pushers in suits:

ABC TV news just now: Oppn won’t oppose plain packaging of cancer sticks.

Another big win by Labor!

[Jovial Monk]

Post from Pollbludger:

The US FDA has directed that cigarette packs must display graphic warnings by Oct 2012.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 89158.html

Australia has had graphic warnings for years now, and the report says 40 other countries also have graphic warnings, most with far more explicit images than what the US has mandated. Gives context for Big Tobacco’s fight against plain packaging: if we do it then others will no doubt follow.

Great we are at the forefront for once!

Plain paper packaging will also be copied.

No wonder Phillip Morris will spend money like water on court battles, donations to the disgusting Libs etc.