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Brazil & Southern Cone - July 2016 (ISSN 1741-4431)
Vázquez fells tobacco giant
A decade after his first government took on the might of the tobacco industry by elevating health considerations to the top of the political agenda, Uruguay’s President Tabaré Vázquez received vindication for his personal crusade against smoking. The World Bank’s International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (Icsid) ruled against the world’s largest tobacco company, Philip Morris International (PMI), on 8 July in a case it brought in 2010 against the Uruguayan state in response to the implementation of regulations requiring health warnings to be displayed on packets of cigarettes and banning all cigarette sub-brands.
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