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 and Vaping Products Act Tobacco and Vaping Products Act The Tobacco and Vaping Products Act is a Canadian law to regulate the production, marketing and sale of tobacco and vaping products. The law was introduced as the "Tobacco Act", Bill C-71 during the 35th Canadian Parliament in 1997, which replaced the former "Tobacco Sales To Young Persons Act" of 1994 as well as the "Tobacco Products Control Act" of 1989. The Tobacco Act was amended on July 5, 2010 and renamed to "Tobacco and Vaping Products Act" in 2018 when similar laws concerning vaping products were added. The purpose of the act is to