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Tobacco: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Tobacco: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

A Last Week Tonight segment on how tobacco companies sustain profits by pushing sales overseas. It covers suits against countries like Australia over plain packaging through trade-deal arbitration.

HN uses it in TPP and trade-deal threads as a clear example of ISDS being used by corporations against governments.

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