The tobacco giant and owner of Marlborough claimed that plain packaging of cigarette packets went against the bilateral investment treaty signed by the two countries, after it took the extraordinary measure of restructuring its investment through an Asian subsidiary based in Hong Kong to take advantage of the 22 year-old investment treaty
distribution was made possible after IQOS was approved for sale by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) earlier this year, according to a press release
These 18 states with so-called pre-emption laws include California, Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming
JOE ROGAN: Oh, thats why