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<description>As bill to introduce plain cigarette packaging is dropped from Queen’s Speech it emerges that poll guru’s firm lobbied for British American Tobacco</description>
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<description>The government plans to condense 60 pieces of legislation into a single law covering goods, services, online content and unfair contract terms</description>
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<title>Cybersecurity: a real world challenge</title>
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<description>The head of IT security at British American Tobacco on the cybersecurity threat and how it has changed the way business is done</description>
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<title>Coalition set to shelve raft of policies</title>
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<description>The electorate will be given a package of new laws which will focus largely on the Conservatives’ priorities: immigration, aspiration and the economy</description>
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<description>Shares in Imperial Tobacco rise on news that branded packets can continue to be sold, granting the industry a reprieve from full advertising clampdown</description>
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<description>Pre-tax profits down to £849m in the six months to March 31 while trading conditions in Europe are likely to remain difficult in the second half</description>
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<title>Revenues rise 5% in first quarter</title>
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<description>Global demand for cigarettes continues to slide and the FTSE 100 tobacco company opts for increased prices to improve revenues, lifting shares 1.3%</description>
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<title>Lebanese treat smoking ban as a drag</title>
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<description>Six months after law change, violations are widespread, with restaurant and café owners claiming the rules have hurt their businesses</description>
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<title>BAT tests ‘less harmful’ cigarettes</title>
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<description>Cigarette maker’s six-week clinical trial in Germany shows those who smoked prototypes were exposed to lower levels of harmful toxicants</description>
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<title>Bloomberg takes aim at cigarette displays</title>
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<description>In New York the smoking rate among adults fell from 21.5% in 2002 to 14.8% in 2011 – but youth smoking has been flat at 8.5% since 2007</description>
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<description>US manufacturing data helped push the wider London market into positive territory for the week, as the benchmark closed up 0.3 per cent</description>
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