Thursday
Dec102015
Plain packaging goes to court
Thursday, December 10, 2015 at 7:05 Today sees the start of a six-day court case involving four tobacco companies and the Government.
The companies (BAT, Imperial, JTI and Philip Morris) believe that plain packaging – effectively the theft of their intellectual property – is unlawful.
Beginning at 7.15 this morning I'm doing the rounds on BBC radio, eleven interviews in total.
I won't be talking about the court case (I don't know anything about it beyond what I've read) but I will be talking about plain packaging, why Forest is against it, and the latest evidence from Australia.
Reader Comments (2)
I'm not a smoker, never have been a smoker (apart from about 3 cigars a year) and I'm sick of these meritricious stunts by officialdom to try to convince us that they're worth their jobs.
Plain packaging will be just one more in a long line of feeble actions that have made absolutely no difference. The only action that has had any effect is the ban in pubs!
Everyone knows that the major reason young people start smoking is a rebelious cool. The more these gray politicians pontificate about smoking the more attractive it becomes. So I vote they ban themselves!
Widely reported?
Anyone seen this reported in the Main Stream Media by any chance?