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The tobacco giant thinks Australia's plan to replace its cigarette brand logos with grisly pictures of cancer-stricken patients or sick children, amounts to bad business. PICTURES: Australia's ...

Before this year, about two-thirds of the front of a cigarette pack in Australia was available for brand names and logos. Now, according to documents filed at the WTO, the packages must all be ...

SYDNEY - Tobacco companies in Australia will be forced to strip ... promotional text or colorful images on cigarette packs. Instead, brand names will be printed in a small, uniform font, and ...

Bata says its budget brand is aimed at smokers ... trading to cheaper products or to illegal cigarettes, so we've been forced to compete". The Australian government and big tobacco companies ...

Imperial Tobacco Australia, which distributes several well-known cigarette brands in Australia, said the new rules would infringe on its intellectual property rights by devaluing its trademarks ...

Australia's Parliament in 2011 became the ... The move was intended to reduce the appeal of smoking by making cigarette brands virtually indistinguishable from one another and to highlight ...

The Australian government accuses tobacco firms of directly targeting vulnerable teenagers with a new budget brand of cigarettes.