Issue 4280. Last Updated: 11/23/2009

Smoking Bill Breaks UN Vow, Critics Say

By Anatoly Medetsky
Health and consumer rights activists are up in arms over the contents of a bill regulating the tobacco industry, saying it contradicts a UN convention that Russia signed in April.

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