The article analyzes three recent proposals made by the State-Parties to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), which appears to be relevant for determining the relationship between trade and health rules in the area of tobacco control. In this context, it attempts to answer the...

The tobacco epidemic poses one of the gravest public health threats to both developed and developing countries. The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), while aiming to address the issue through various regulatory measures, has created many friction points with other treaty regimes...

Privatization after monopoly / Dr. Benito Legarda, Jr. -- Tobacco and modernization / Maria Dolores Elizalde -- The French connection of the Tabacalera / Ma. Luisa T. Camagay, Ph.D. -- In the orbit of an economic giant, the adaptation of the CGTF to the new institutional framework, 1898-1914 /...

The British North American colonies were the first western economies to rely on legislature-issued fiat paper money as their principal internal medium of exchange. This system arose piecemeal across the colonies making the paper money creation story for each colony unique. It was true monetary...