Health &Tobacco regulation-impact of TPP. Phillip Morris objects to packaging regs.
Channel: m Spiess
Date: 2010-11-22

The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) and tobacco regulation were briefed by Forum on Democracy and Trade to the Maine Citizen Trade Policy Commission. Phillip Morris International is using investment rules to challenge Uruguay's tobacco regulations, and domestic regulations democratically enacted here in the U.S. are potentially in PMI's sites to be challenged as well. PMI already has plans to target cigarette packaging regulations in Australia and Singapore.
States regulate tobacco industry by taxing, by regulating location of cigarette vending machines, requiring packaging to contain warning language, limiting youth targeting advertising and other means to minimize health impacts .