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Tobacco industry lobbying, TPP
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/01/business/international/us-chamber-works-globally-to-fight-antismoking-measures.html
U.S. Chamber of Commerce Works Globally to Fight Antismoking Measures
By DANNY HAKIM
New York Times
JUNE 30, 2015
(Ukraine filed a legal challenge to Australia's right to enact nonsmoking laws, at the urging of Taras Kachka, head of a Ukrainian affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which has been fighting tobacco regulations worldwide. A global treaty, negotiated by WHO, mandates anti-smoking measures; the US didn't ratify it.)
And in Washington, Thomas J. Donohue, the chief executive of the chamber, has personally taken part in lobbying to defend the ability of the tobacco industry to sue under future international treaties, notably the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade agreement being negotiated between the United States and several Pacific Rim nations.