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At the beginning of 2001 some Third World countries and the European Union took legal action in the United States to try to get back billions of dollars in tax revenue they had lost on cigarettes smuggled in by Big Tobacco, a group made up mostly of American companies.
A federal judge ruled that, based on the "Revenue Rule", a longstanding common law doctrine, a Court in America will not take legal action in contraband issues involving the activities of American companies in other countries.
April 26th 2005: for the first time, the Supreme Court said that a provision of the U.S. common law does not prevent the use of federal courts to litigate over foreign tax matters involving commerce, and breathed new life into the foreign lawsuits. Read more »
In the late 1700s, physician Edward Jenner injected a young boy with cowpox to test his hypothesis that those who were infected with that disease never contracted the vastly more serious smallpox. A few weeks later, Jenner gave the boy a dose of smallpox. Fortunately for the boy, it worked, and Jenner is known as a hero and a pioneer in vaccination.
This new drug works by stimulating the production of antibodies in the blood. The antibodies stop nicotine from entering the brain and producing the addictive sensation craved by smokers. The vaccine approach has the potential to dramatically alter the way we will treat smoking addiction in the future. This medical product has been fully effective on 50% of the 341 heavy smokers who took part in the study conducted by the Swiss pharmaceutical company Cytos Biotechnology, that is aiming to get it on the market by 2010.
Last July, the Marlboro cigarettes of the Yesmoke site began migrating to Cuba, where this top American brand is omnipresent, as it is everywhere in the world.
USA, June 2005 - A bill was introduced in the House of Representatives that would ban delivery of cigarettes and other tobacco products through the mail.
"Cornuti and Mazziati": "Cuckolded and Beaten, too …". The literal translation of an Italian saying.
