Liquor set for the firing line after tobacco?

27-Jun-2001

Is duty-free liquor the next target for the World Health Organization? By Adele Wolstenhulme.

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By Adele Wolstenhulme

Liquor could be the next travel-retail category to face the axe if the World Health Organization (WHO) caves in to pressure from anti-tobacco lobbying groups. ?The similarities

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