The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update

1. TOBACCO

The U.S. declines to ratify the World Health Organization’s anti-tobacco treaty which calls on countries to enact limits on cigarette advertising.

CEI Expert Available for Comment: General Counsel Sam Kazman debates tobacco advertising on CNN with Connecticut attorney general Richard Blumenthal.

2. HEALTH AND SAFETY

Worries over hoarding of anti-flu drug Tamiflu have caused drug maker Roche to stop selling the drug in several countries and turn stockpiles over to government agencies.

CEI Expert Available for Comment: Fellow in Economic Policy John Berlau on how corporate accounting regulations could be keeping companies from building up sufficient vaccine stockpiles.

3. ENERGY

British-based oil company BP refuses to comment on its rumored plans to make a major investment in Asian fuel oil supplier China Aviation Oil.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Christopher C. Horner on the hypocrisy of BP’s anti-petroleum public relations strategy.

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