Europe’s governments must implement standardised tobacco packaging now
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What comes after standardised packaging for tobacco?
The tobacco industry is on course to kill around one billion people in the 21st century, with a global social burden costing an estimated $2.1tr a year. Smoking related disease remains the number one cause of preventable deaths in the UK. The implementation of regulations for standardised packaging of tobacco products on 20May in the UK and France, with Ireland soon to follow, therefore represe...
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Hatchard JL, Fooks GJ, Gilmore AB. Standardised tobacco packaging: a health policy case study of corporate conflict expansion and adaptation. BMJ Open 2016;6:e012634. On page 8, a sentence reads: ‘For example, in public communications former police officers did not declare membership of the Common Sense Alliance (a FOREST offshoot).’ The Common Sense Alliance is not an offshoot of FOREST. It wa...
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In this commentary we consider the validity of tobacco industry-funded research on the effects of standardised packaging in Australia. As the first country to introduce standardised packs, Australia is closely watched, and Philip Morris International has recently funded two studies into the impact of the measure on smoking prevalence. Both of these papers are flawed in conception as well as des...
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عنوان ژورنال: The European Journal of Public Health
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1101-1262,1464-360X
DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckv002