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A federal Liberal backbencher has queried whether his party should accept donations from tobacco companies.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8263110/lib-mp-anti-tobacco-company-donations

West Australian MP Dennis Jensen told reporters an “implied conflict of interest” for governments making health policy relating to tobacco was a problem.

The federal government has criticised the opposition for accepting donations from British American Tobacco, worth $170,000 in 2010.

Labor, which is pushing ahead with the plain packaging of cigarettes, banned donations from tobacco companies in 2004.

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