Abbott to back plain-packet cigarettes | The Australian | 31.5.11 Tony Abbott has offered Coalition support for plain packaging of cigarettes, bowing to political pressure from Labor and sections of his own party for the tough new anti-smoking measure. “We will seek to amend the legislation to ensure that it really does bring smoking rates…
Ciggie pack war must be won: Cancer Council | Sydney Morning Herald | 28.5.11 If the tobacco industry wins the battle on plain cigarette packaging it will set back efforts to save the lives of Australians and people around the world, the Cancer Council says. A survey commissioned by the Cancer Council shows the majority…
The unstoppable march of the tobacco giants: How the industry ruthlessly exploits the developing world – its young, poor and uneducated The Independent | 29.5.11 More than half a century after scientists uncovered the link between smoking and cancer – triggering a war between health campaigners and the cigarette industry – big tobacco is thriving….
Big tobacco wants Malaysia to put pressure on Australia | Perth Now | 27.5.11 Big tobacco has enlisted a former US ambassador to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to help it fight plans to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes. Peter Allgeier, who now works for a Washington-based consultancy firm, has been lobbying Malaysia to pressure…
Tobacco plain packaging to pass despite Opposition | Sydney Morning Herald | 26.5.11 THE federal government’s push for the plain packaging of tobacco is set to whistle through Parliament regardless of what Tony Abbott decides. The government intends to introduce the plain packaging legislation into Parliament in July, by when the Greens, who support the…