Plain tobacco packaging and investment proceedings on the issue has been described as an affront to the rule of law in Australia. Dr Patricia Ranald, Convener of the Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network said that big tobacco and other global corporations are lobbying hard to include the right of foreign investors to sue governments in the current negotiations for a Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA). Philip Morris International lost its case in December 2015. In November 2011, British American Tobacco announced that it would challenge the laws in the High Court as soon as they gained royal assent. In August 2012, the High
Tobacco products mentions that it is "often used to clean teeth". The manufacturer recommends letting the paste linger in the mouth before rinsing. Dipping tobacco, also known as "dip", "moist snuff" (or simply "snuff"), "American moist snuff", or "spit tobacco", is a form of smokeless tobacco. (It should also be noted that the term "smokeless tobacco" itself is a broad one which, while generally referring to all tobacco products which do not require smoking (e.g. nasal snuff, chewing tobacco, snus, etc.), is popularly used to refer specifically to dipping tobacco.) Dip is sometimes also called "chew" or "chaw"; because of this, it