ASH Daily News for 29/09/2003
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ASH Daily News
29 September 2003
HEADLINES
Mafia chief links Balkan leader to tobacco scam
Spanish smokers scornful of new warnings
Yes or No? Are smokers of mild cigarettes fooling themselves
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Mafia chief links Balkan leader to tobacco scam
In a high-security courtroom in the southern Italian port of Bari, Gerardo Cuomo is accused of being a member of a mafia-style organisation. The 57-year-old, extradited from Switzerland three years ago, is a veteran Neapolitan mobster and a linchpin of what for the past decade has been Europe's biggest cigarette smuggling racket, according to Italian prosecutors and the European Union's anti-fraud office.
"Cuomo is very, very important," says the Bari prosecutor, Giuseppe Scelsi, a renowned crusading anti-mafia investigator. "He was one of the chiefs."
But if Cuomo has information on organised crime, it is his allegations against one man that are likely to have the biggest impact. He has testified that the great survivor of Balkan politics, Milo Djukanovic, prime minister of Montenegro, was operating hand in hand with the gangs who smuggle billions of cigarettes into the EU.
The shrewd 41-year-old who has ruled his small corner of former Yugoslavia since 1991 has weathered wars, election challenges, and national breakdown, first as prime minister, then as president, and now again as prime minister.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1050647,00.html
Source: The Guardian, 27 September 2003
Spanish smokers scornful of new warnings
MADRID: All José Sanz asked for at his local tobacco shop was "a pack of Fortuna, please." It came with a biology lesson.
"Smoking may damage sperm and reduce fertility," read the boldface warning on his cigarette package, one of a host of cautionary messages required, as of Wednesday, to be printed on all tobacco products sold in the European Union.
Sanz grimaced. "They're trying to make our lives miserable," he said, then shook his head at another menacing label: "Smoking may reduce blood flow and cause impotence."
Full article:
http://www.iht.com/ihtsearch.php?id=111680
Source: International Herald Tribune, 29 September 2003
Yes or No? Are smokers of mild cigarettes fooling themselves
In the wake of Cancer Research UK's campaign denuding the pretence under which the tobacco industry marketed its 'light' and 'mild' brands of cigarettes, the Times asks a variety of people drawn from both the pro-tobacco lobby and public health professionals whether the smokers are fooling themselves.
Full article:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-100-830363,00.html
Source: The Times, 27 September 2003
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Tel 020 7739 5902 Fax 020 7613 0531
ASH Daily News
29 September 2003
HEADLINES
Mafia chief links Balkan leader to tobacco scam
Spanish smokers scornful of new warnings
Yes or No? Are smokers of mild cigarettes fooling themselves
FULL TEXT
Mafia chief links Balkan leader to tobacco scam
In a high-security courtroom in the southern Italian port of Bari, Gerardo Cuomo is accused of being a member of a mafia-style organisation. The 57-year-old, extradited from Switzerland three years ago, is a veteran Neapolitan mobster and a linchpin of what for the past decade has been Europe's biggest cigarette smuggling racket, according to Italian prosecutors and the European Union's anti-fraud office.
"Cuomo is very, very important," says the Bari prosecutor, Giuseppe Scelsi, a renowned crusading anti-mafia investigator. "He was one of the chiefs."
But if Cuomo has information on organised crime, it is his allegations against one man that are likely to have the biggest impact. He has testified that the great survivor of Balkan politics, Milo Djukanovic, prime minister of Montenegro, was operating hand in hand with the gangs who smuggle billions of cigarettes into the EU.
The shrewd 41-year-old who has ruled his small corner of former Yugoslavia since 1991 has weathered wars, election challenges, and national breakdown, first as prime minister, then as president, and now again as prime minister.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1050647,00.html
Source: The Guardian, 27 September 2003
Spanish smokers scornful of new warnings
MADRID: All José Sanz asked for at his local tobacco shop was "a pack of Fortuna, please." It came with a biology lesson.
"Smoking may damage sperm and reduce fertility," read the boldface warning on his cigarette package, one of a host of cautionary messages required, as of Wednesday, to be printed on all tobacco products sold in the European Union.
Sanz grimaced. "They're trying to make our lives miserable," he said, then shook his head at another menacing label: "Smoking may reduce blood flow and cause impotence."
Full article:
http://www.iht.com/ihtsearch.php?id=111680
Source: International Herald Tribune, 29 September 2003
Yes or No? Are smokers of mild cigarettes fooling themselves
In the wake of Cancer Research UK's campaign denuding the pretence under which the tobacco industry marketed its 'light' and 'mild' brands of cigarettes, the Times asks a variety of people drawn from both the pro-tobacco lobby and public health professionals whether the smokers are fooling themselves.
Full article:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-100-830363,00.html
Source: The Times, 27 September 2003
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