Vote in the SKY NEWS poll | 25.5.11 Do you oppose plain packaging for cigarettes? Click Here > (The poll is located in the red box on the left hand side of the page!)
Vote in the SKY NEWS poll | 25.5.11 Do you oppose plain packaging for cigarettes? Click Here > (The poll is located in the red box on the left hand side of the page!)
Abbott faces revolt over tobacco | Sydney Morning Herald | 24.5.11 A day after quelling backbench unrest about comments by Malcolm Turnbull, the Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, faces a revolt over his refusal to back plain packaging for cigarettes. A group of senior MPs, led by the former whip and cancer survivor Alex Somlyay, are…
Abbott wavers, and eyes light up in tobacco-land | Sydney Morning Herald | 18.5.11 The government has accused Tony Abbott of being in bed with big tobacco after the fitness fanatic and former health minister backed away from supporting plain packaging for cigarettes. After saying begrudgingly a year ago he supported plain cigarette packets with…
We’ll flood the market with cheap tobacco, says British American Tobacco chief thetelegraph.com.au | 17.5.11 THE tobacco industry is threatening to flood Australia with half-price cigarettes and force the government to cough up billions of dollars in compensation if it is forced to remove branding from cigarette packets. Read More> Take Action Now! Have your…
Tanning doses are off colour, study finds | Sydney Morning Herald | 16.5.11 Sunbeds can deliver wildly different doses of UV radiation, with some exposing users to levels up to six times the strength of the midday sun, research shows. Users have little indication which beds will give higher doses. An audit of beds in…