Join us in monitoring and researching the promotional activities of the global tobacco industry.
"In our opinion, [after taxation] the other two regulatory environment changes that concern the industry the most are homogenous packaging and below-the-counter sales. Both would significantly restrict the industry's ability to promote their products." Morgan Stanley Research (2007)
As part of the Australian Health News Research Collaboration, we are running a research project aimed at generating news and commentary in NSW media to support tobacco control policy and practice.
Our objective is to raise public awareness of neglected research findings among the hundreds of unpublicised studies published in specialist journals and other sources by disseminating selected findings to NSW media outlets. A related aim is to increase participation of state and national tobacco control expertise in this increased coverage.
This process involves sending news releases to print, radio and television media. Copies of these releases are below.
August 2010 | July 2010 | June 2010 | May 2010 | April 2010 | March 2010 | February 2010 |
August 2010
25 August 2010 - Australian academic calls out Bill Gates
11 August 2010 - Six Australians of the Year Call for political support on plain tobacco packaging
July 2010
20 July 2010 - Lung cancer to double in Pacific Islands - British American Tobacco Australia claims 100% market share for many island nations.
13 July 2010 - New study busts myth: low daily cigarette consumption in remote Aboriginal communities. Related study here.
8 July 2010 - The dangerous myth that light smoking is harmless.
June 2010
28 June 2010 - Identifying the ‘safe smoker'; new publications outline tobacco industry funding of genetic research.
16 June 2010 - An independent global survey has found that the tobacco industry is the world's least reputable industry.
May 2010
26 May 2010 - More than 90% of homes in New South Wales are smoke-free.
17 May 2010 - Attitudes toward smoking contribute to higher tobacco use among low socioeconomic groups in Australia
05 May 2010 - International conference in Sydney refuses sponsor with tobacco link.
April 2010
16 April 2010 - Cigarette pack advertising remains tobacco industry's key means of promotion - study.
March 2010
30 March 2010 - New book on pig products reveals problems for Islamic, Jewish and vegetarian smokers.
The South African National Halaal Authority has issued this poster warning Muslims about possible pigs blood in cigarette filters. See related news coverage here.
Stephen Colbert, host of the Colbert Report on the US Comedy Network, has picked up on the pig's blood in cigarettes story and has given a "reluctant wag of the finger to the tobacco industry". The sketch also features actor Jeff Goldblum.
The clip can be viewed here. (There is a perfume commercial beforehand that you will be forced to watch. After that, push through to the 3:42 minute mark if you don't want to watch Colbert lampoon "Hello Kitty" wine before the cigarette sketch.)
25 March 2010 - Single puff may trigger nicotine addiction: Tobacco industry sponsored research.
18 March 2010 - Call for Australian airline companies to ban "electronic cigarettes"
11 March 2010 - Campaign decreases smoking among Sydney's Arabic speakin population - study.
6 March 2010 - Researchers recruiting public to track tobacco industry advertising.
1 March 2010 - Will US ‘no-smokers' hiring policy happen in Australia?
February 2010
18 Feb 2010 - Media quit campaigns cause for optimism in lowering Aboriginal smoking rates.
5 Feb 2010 - Smoking shown to be a risk for Alzheimer's disease.
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