In the category of "things that will surprise nobody," the FT reports the following:
Two of the world’s biggest tobacco companies are providing legal support to member countries at the World Trade Organisation that are threatening to take Australia to international court over the world’s toughest antismoking laws.
Philip Morris International and British American Tobacco, the two largest publicly listed tobacco companies by volume outside China, told the FT they were advising several countries that had complained that Australia’s plain packaging laws – in which tobacco companies will have to sell their products in identical drab packaging – violate international trade agreements.
