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1 week ago | 
buff.ly | Jason McLure |Maria Perez |María Pérez |Mailee Osten-Tan
The 2001 deal delivered millions to an in-law of the former president, Bounnhang Vorachit, while blocking tobacco tax hikes for 25 years. By Jason McLure, Maria Pérez, and Mailee Osten-Tan Subscribe for ads-free reading This investigation is a co-publication of reporting by The Examination, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates global health threats.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
saludconlupa.com | Maria Perez |María Pérez |Jason McLure |Francisca Skoknic
Philip Morris International y British American Tobacco están incluyendo sabores agradables para niños como el arándano y la sandía en los cigarrillos convencionales y luchan contra los intentos de prohibir los productos en América Latina. Los cigarrillos "clic" tienen cápsulas triturables en el filtro que impregnan el humo con sabores como limón, manzana o naranja.
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thelancet.com | Jason McLure
Deceptive health appeals using tactics developed by Western tobacco companies are helping China Tobacco grow sales. By Jason McLure and Jude Chan. A deceptive and deadly marketing approach that Western tobacco companies were forced to disavow is propelling cigarette sales in China to new heights. Smokers buy half a trillion low tar cigarettes in China each year, accounting for 20% of all sales in the world's biggest tobacco market, according to data from TobaccoChina, a trade magazine.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 01686-6/abstract?hss_channel=tw-27013292&dgcid=twitter_organic_wr24_lancet&sz=64)
thelancet.com | Jason McLure |Jude Chan
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May 8, 2024 | 
newarab.com | Jason McLure |Aisha Down |Lara Dihmis
This story is part of Smoking for the State, a The Examination series examining government-controlled tobacco companies supported in part, by a grant from the Pulitzer Center. The Examination is a nonprofit investigative newsroom covering global public health, which receives funding from Bloomberg Philantropies among others. This instalment was reported in collaboration with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP).
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Oct 3, 2023 | 
worldcrunch.com | Jude Chan |Jason McLure |Christoph Giesen
China Tobacco's campaign China’s failure to deliver on its promises, including blunting the influence of its own tobacco Goliath, is hardly happenstance. Operating from deep within China's own political establishment, China Tobacco has engineered a spectacularly successful campaign to stall, derail and influence key aspects of how the treaty has been implemented, a joint investigation by The Examination and media partners has found.
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Oct 2, 2023 | 
worldcrunch.com | Jude Chan |Jason McLure |Christoph Giesen |Emma Albright
EconomyBeijing - A Chinese man smokes a cigarette outside a shopping center Stephen Shaver / ZUMAEconomyBeijing - A Chinese man smokes a cigarette outside a shopping center Stephen Shaver / ZUMAYou've reached your limit of free articles. To read the full story, start your free trial today. Get unlimited access. Cancel anytime. Exclusive coverage from the world's top sources, in English for the first time. Insights from the widest range of perspectives, languages and countries.
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Sep 13, 2023 | 
usatoday.com | Jason McLure |Jude Chan |Manyun Zou |Christoph Giesen
This story was produced by The Examination, a new nonprofit newsroom dedicated to investigating preventable health threats. It was reported with Germany’s Der Spiegel, Paper Trail Media, Chinese-language Initium Media and Austria's Der Standard, and supported in part by a grant from the Pulitzer Center. Chongqing, a booming municipality of 32 million people, was set to join a short list of major Chinese cities that have banned indoor smoking in public.
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Sep 13, 2023 | 
theexamination.org | Jason McLure |Manyun Zou
Two decades after the Chinese public health community celebrated the adoption of a landmark anti-smoking treaty, smoking rates have barely budged, even as they have dropped significantly in some of the other countries that signed onto the World Health Organization (WHO) agreement, known as the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. So what went wrong?
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Sep 13, 2023 | 
the-examination-website.vercel.app | Jason McLure |Manyun Zou
Two decades after the Chinese public health community celebrated the adoption of a landmark anti-smoking treaty, smoking rates have barely budged, even as they have dropped significantly in some of the other countries that signed onto the World Health Organization (WHO) agreement, known as the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. So what went wrong?
