On October 24th, Tekel, a Turkish state-run firm that sells tobacco products, salt and alcohol, will put its tobacco business on the auction block.

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Before these allegations surfaced, Mr Djukanovic had been named last October in a lawsuit brought by the European Union against an American tobacco firm, R.

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But that was long before Hanes began moving much of its production offshore, and before the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (under which the tobacco companies agreed in 1998 to pay hundreds of billions of dollars in damages for harming people's health), the leveraged buy-out of RJR by a private-equity firm, the elimination of federal farm price support for tobacco and decades of anti-smoking advertising.

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