Tobacco: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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中文导读
《Last Week Tonight》揭秘烟草巨头如何通过向海外转嫁销售维系暴利,深入剖析了跨国企业如何利用贸易协定中的争端仲裁机制(ISDS),就平装烟盒法案起诉澳大利亚等主权国家。
为什么 HN 推它
在探讨跨国贸易协定与 TPP 时常被引用的经典案例,生动展示了企业如何利用投资争端解决机制(ISDS)绑架政府公共卫生政策。
「强烈推荐你看一看,大概 18 分钟长,但绝对物超所值。」HN 网友原话:I really encourage you to check it out. It's about 18min long, but well worth it
英文原摘要(HackerTube / Claude 整理)
A Last Week Tonight segment on how tobacco companies sustain profits by pushing sales overseas. It covers suits against countries like Australia over plain packaging through trade-deal arbitration.
HN uses it in TPP and trade-deal threads as a clear example of ISDS being used by corporations against governments.
HN 上的提及
Keep watching - the corporate stuff starts a few minutes in
There was a great John Oliver segment on the tobacco industry
this example is covered well by John Oliver
I really encourage you to check it out. It's about 18min long, but well worth it
they actually sue countries [0] to keep their rights to advertise death.