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Simon Chapman - Publications - Tobacco Related Papers

The papers below are a selection of those that have been most cited and requested over the years. My full CV is here

 
     
 

2008

 

Assunta M, Chapman S. The lightest market in the world: light and mild cigarettes in Japan. Nicotine & Tobacco Research 2008;10:803-10.

Chapman S. Benefits and risks in ending tobacco’s regulatory exceptionalism. Tobacco Control 2008; 17:73-74.

Chapman S, Ragg M, McGeechan K. Citation bias in the reporting of the prevalence of smoking in people with schizophrenia. Under review

Chapman S. International tobacco control should repudiate Jekyll and Hyde health philanthropy. Tobacco Control 2008;17:1.

Chapman S. Repealing Australia's ban on smokeless tobacco? Hasten slowly. Med J Aust 2008;188:47-49. This is a response to "Should Australia lift its ban on low nitrosamine smokeless tobacco products?"

Chapman S, Freeman B. Markers of the denormalisation of smoking and the tobacco industry. Tobacco Control 2008;17:25-31

Freeman B, Chapman S. Review: The case for plain packaging of tobacco products. Addiction 2008;103:580-590. and Age news report

Freeman B, Chapman S, Storey P. Banning smoking in cars carrying children: an analytical history of a public health advocacy campaign. Aust NZ J Public Health 2008;32:60-5

Chapman S. The future of tobacco control: making smoking history. Int J Tuberculosis and Lung Dis 2008:12:8-12.


Wakefield MA, Durkin S, Spittal M, Siahpush M, Scollo M, Simpson J, Chapman S, White V, Hill D. Impact of tobacco policies and mass media campaigns on monthly adult smoking prevalence: time series analysis. Am J Public Health: in press.

2007

Freeman B, Chapman S. Tobacco promotion invades new media. Lancet Oncology 2007;8:973-4.

Chapman S. The future of smoke-free legislation. BMJ 2007;335:521-2.

Gartner CE, Hall WD, Chapman S, Freeman B. Should the health community promote smokeless tobacco (snus) as a harm reduction measure? PLoS Medicine 2007;4(7)e185 doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0040185 [you can listen here to a Radio 6PR Perth interview of Coral Gartner (11.12mins & 10.2mb) & Simon Chapman (11.06mins & 10.1mb) discussing this paper]

Hooker C, Chapman S. “Our youth must be protected from drug abuse: talking tobacco in the NSW Parliament 1950-2003. Health & History 2007; 9(1):106-28.

Chapman S. Falling smoking prevalence: how low can we go? Tobacco Control 2007;16:145-7.

Freeman B, Chapman S. Is YouTube telling or selling you something? Tobacco content on the YouTube video sharing website. Tobacco Control 2007;16:207-10 (see denial from BAT that they are funding pro-smoking clips and a YouTube exploration of the subject)

Chapman S. Risks of smoking: all done and dusted. BMJ 2007; Jan 6. Download a 40 minute lecture (video & slides here)

Chapman S. Evidence, ethics, hubris and the future of secondhand smoke policy. Tobacco Control 2007;16:73-4.

2006

Assunta M, Chapman S. Health treaty dilution: a case study of Japan's influence on the language of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. J Epidemiol Community Health 2006;60:751-6. translated into Japanese

Bryan-Jones K, Chapman S. Political dynamics promoting the incremental regulation of secondhand smoke: a case study of New South Wales, Australia. BMC Public Health 2006;6:192.

Carter SM, Chapman S. Smokers and non-smokers talk about regulatory options in tobacco control. Tob Control 2006;15:398-404.

Chiang PPC, Chapman S. Do pharmacy staff recommend evidenced-based smoking cessation products?: a pseudo patron study. Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics 2006; 31:205-209. See also the authors' reply to a letter to the editor.

Hooker C, Chapman S. Deliberately personal: tobacco control debates and deliberative democracy in New South Wales. Critical Public Health 2006; 16:35-46.

Hooker C, Chapman S. Structural elements in achieving legislative tobacco control in NSW, 1955-95: political reflections and implications. Aust N Z J Public Health 2006; 30:10-15.

2005

Byrne F, Chapman S. The most cited authors and papers in tobacco control. Tobacco Control 2005;14:155-60.

Champion D, Chapman S. Framing pub smoking bans: An analysis of Australian print news media coverage, March 1996- March 2003. J Epidemiol Community Health 2005; 59:679-84.

Chapman S. Business sector shuns tobacco companies. BMJ 2005;331:1414.

Chapman S. The most important and influential papers in tobacco control. Tobacco Control 2005 14: e1. doi:10.1136/tc.2005.013177

Chapman S. Never say die? Med J Aust 2005;193:622-3.

Chapman S. Research from tobacco industry affiliated authors: need for particular vigilance. Tobacco Control 2005;14:217-19.

Chapman S. The smoker-free workplace: the case against. Tobacco Control 2005;14:144.

Chapman S, Liberman J. Ensuring smokers are adequately informed: reflections on consumer rights, manufacturer responsibilities and policy implications. Tobacco Control 2005;14(Suppl II):ii8-ii13.

Garne D, Watson M, Byrne F, Chapman S. Environmental tobacco smoke research published in the journal Indoor and Built Environment and associations with the tobacco industry. Lancet 2005;365:804-9.

Sachdev P, Chapman S. Availability of smokeless tobacco products in South Asian grocery shops in Sydney, 2004. Med J Aust 2005;183:334.

Vagg R, Chapman S. Nicotine analogues: A review of tobacco industry research interests. Addiction 2005;100:701-12.

Wakefield M, Clegg Smith K, Chapman S. Framing of Australian newspaper coverage of a secondhand smoke injury claim: lessons for media advocacy. Critical Public Health 2005;15:53-63.

2004

Chapman S. "The contemporary, irreverent brand of youth with an independent streak.": BAT's youth promotions in Myanmar. Tobacco Control 2004;12:93-4.

Assunta M, Fields N, Knight J, Chapman. Care and feeding: "Our consultants are prepared to do the kinds of things they were recruited to do". The Asian ETS Consultants Program. Tobacco Control 2004; 13 (Suppl 2): ii4-12.

Knight J, Chapman S. "A phony way to show sincerity, as we all well know": tobacco industry lobbying against tobacco control in Hong Kong. Tobacco Control 2004; 13 (Suppl 2): ii13-21.

Knight J, Chapman S. "Asian yuppies … are always looking for something new and different": creating a tobacco culture among young Asians. Tobacco Control 2004; 13 (Suppl 2): ii22-29.

Knight J, Chapman S. "Asia is now the priority target for the world anti-tobacco movement.": attempts by the tobacco industry to undermine the Asian anti-smoking movement. Tobacco Control 2004; 13 (Suppl 2):ii30-6.

Assunta M, Chapman S. Industry sponsored youth smoking prevention programme in Malaysia: a case study in duplicity. Tobacco Control 2004; 13 (Suppl 2):ii51-57. (10th most downloaded paper in 2007)

Assunta N, Chapman S. A mire of highly subjective and ineffective voluntary guidelines: tobacco industry efforts to thwart tobacco control in Malaysia. Tobacco Control 2004;13 (Suppl) 2):ii43-50.

Assunta M, Chapman S. "The world's most hostile environment": How the tobacco industry circumvented Singapore's advertising ban. Tobacco Control 2004; 13 (Suppl 2):ii51-57.

Assunta M, Chapman S. A clean cigarette for a clean nation: a case study of Salem Pianissimo in Japan. Tobacco Control 2004;13 (Suppl 2):ii58-62.

Assunta M, Chapman S. The tobacco industry's accounts of refining indirect tobacco advertising in Malaysia. Tobacco Control 2004; 13 (Suppl 2):ii37-42.

Alechnowicz K, Chapman S. The Philippine Tobacco Industry: "the strongest tobacco lobby in Asia". Tobacco Control 2004;13 (Suppl 2):ii71-8.

Chapman S. Public health advocacy: a primer. J Epidemiology Comm Health 2004;58:361-5.

Oakes W, Chapman S, Balmford J, Borland R, Trotter L. "Bulletproof skeptics in life's jungle": which self-exempting beliefs about smoking most predict lack of intention to quit? Prev Med 2004;39:776-82. This paper was a key source of data used to inform the development of the NSW Cancer Institute's "excuses" campaign ". The Institue released the first antismoking TV advertisement Quitting is Hard. Not Quitting is Harder in 2005 and the second advertisement in 2006.

Chapman S. "Half pregnant" occupational health policy on environmental tobacco smoke. Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2004; 61:385-6.

Chapman S. Half full or half empty? Tobacco control in Australia in 2004. Aust NZ J Public Health 2004;28:309-11.

Chapman S, Balmain A. Time to legislate for fire-safe cigarettes in Australia. Med J Aust 2004;181:292-3.

Chapman S, Wakefield M, Durkin S. Smoking status of 132,176 advertisers on a dating website. Med J Aust 2004;181:672-4.

Chapman S. Tobacco control in Australia: victims of our past success? NSW Public Health Bulletin 2004;15:(5-6):85-7.

Chapman S. Extreme corporate makeover interuptus: denormalising tobacco industry corporate schmoozing. Tobacco Control 2004;13:445-7.

Szilagyi T, Chapman S. Tobacco industry efforts to erode tobacco advertising controls in Hungary. Cent Eur J Public Health 2004; 12:190-6

2003

Fields N, Chapman S. Chasing Ernst Wynder: 40 years of Philip Morris efforts to influence a leading scientist. J Epidem Comm Health 2003;57:571-8.

Szilagyi T, Chapman S. Hungry for Hungary: examples of the tobacco industry's expansionism. Central European Journal of Public Health 2003; 11:38-43.

Szilagyi T, Chapman S. Tobacco industry efforts to keep cigarettes affordable: a case study from Hungary. Central European Journal of Public Health 2003;11:223-28.

Chapman S. Reducing tobacco consumption. NSW Public Health Bulletin 2003; 14(3):46-8.

Chapman S, Byrne F, Carter SM. "One of the darkest markets in the world": the global importance of Australian tobacco control. Tobacco Control 2003; 12 (Suppl 3): iii1-iii3.

Carter SM, Chapman S. Smoking, health and obdurate denial: the Australian tobacco industry in the 1980s. Tobacco Control 2003; 12 (Suppl 3): iii23-iii30.

Tofler A, Chapman S. "Some convincing arguments to pass back to nervous customers": the role of the tobacco retailer in the Australian tobacco industry's smoker reassurance campaign, 1953-1978. Tobacco Control 2003; ; 12 (Suppl 3): iii7-iii12.

Chapman S, Carter SM. "Avoid health warnings on all tobacco products for just as long as we can": a history of Australian tobacco industry efforts to avoid, delay and dilute health warnings on cigarettes. Tobacco Control 2003; ; 12 (Suppl 3): iii13-iii22.

Chapman S, Carter SM. "We are anxious to remain anonymous": the use of third party scientific and medical consultants by the Australian tobacco industry. Tobacco Control 2003; 12 (Suppl 31): iii1-iii37.

Chapman S, Penman A. "Can't stop the boy": Philip Morris' use of Healthy Buildings International to prevent workplace smoking bans. Tobacco Control 2003; 12 (Suppl 3): iii107-iii112.

Chapman S. "It is possible he is a kind of nut": how the tobacco industry quietly promoted Dr William Whitby. Tobacco Control 2003; 12 (Suppl 3): iii4-iii6.

Trotter L, Chapman S. "Conclusions about exposure to ETS and health that will be unhelpful to us": How the tobacco industry attempted to delay and discredit the 1997 Australian National Health and Medical Research Council report on passive smoking. Tobacco Control 2003; 12 (Suppl 3): iii102-iii106.

Chapman S, Carter SM, Byrne F. "Keep a low profile": pesticide residue and additives in Australian tobacco. Tobacco Control 2003 ; 12 (Suppl 3): iii45-iii53.

King B, Carter SM, Borland R, Chapman S. The Australian tar derby. Tobacco Control 2003; 12 (Suppl 3): iii61-iii70.

Chapman S, Carter SM, Peters M. "A Deep Fragrance of Academia": the Australian Tobacco Research Foundation. Tobacco Control 2003; 12 (Suppl 3): iii38-iii44.

Durrant R, Wakefield M, McLeod K, Clegg-Smith K, Chapman S. Tobacco in the news: An analysis of newspaper coverage of tobacco issues in Australia, 2001. Tobacco Control 2003; Suppl2:1175-81.

2002

Shatenstein S, Chapman S. The banality of tobacco deaths. Tobacco Control 2002; 11:1-2.

Chapman S. Formula One racing and the end of tobacco sponsorship: half pregnant at 350kph? Tobacco Control 2002;11:87-8.

Chapman S. Blaming tobacco's victims. Tobacco Control 2002;11:167-8.

Chapman S. Geoff Bible's class. Tobacco Control 2002;11: 289-90.

2001

Chapman S, Leask J. Paid celebrity endorsement in health promotion: a case study. Health Prom Int 2001;16:333-8.

Chapman S, Shatenstein S. The ethics of the cash register: taking tobacco industry research dollars. Tobacco Control 2001;10:1-2.

Chapman S, Dominello A. A strategy for increasing news media coverage of tobacco and health in Australia. Health Promotion Int 2001; 16:137-43.

Chapman S, Wakefield M. Tobacco control advocacy in Australia: reflections on 30 years of progress. Health Education & Behaviour 2001;29:274-289.

Drope J, Chapman S. Tobacco industry efforts at discrediting the science of environmental tobacco smoke: a review of internal industry documents. J Epidemiol Community Health 2001;55;588- 94.

Chapman S, Borland R, Lal A. Has the ban on smoking in NSW restaurants worked? A comparison of restaurants in Sydney and Melbourne. Med J Aust 2001;174: 512-5.

Chapman S. Advocacy in public health: roles and challenges. Int J Epidemiol 2001;30:6:1226-32.

Chapman S. Ten years and (body) counting …Tobacco Control 2001;10:297-8.

2000

Chapman S. Tough on drugs, weak on tobacco. Med J Aust 2000;172:612-4.

Francey N, Chapman S. "Operation Berkshire": the international tobacco companies' conspiracy. BMJ 2000;321(7257):371-374.

O'Sullivan B, Chapman S. Eyes on the prize: transnational tobacco companies in China 1976-1997. Tobacco Control 2000;9:292-302.

Shiell A, Chapman S. The inertia of self-regulation: a game-theoretic approach to reducing passive smoking in restaurants. Soc Sci Med 2000;51:1111-9.

1999

Christofides N, Chapman S, Dominello A. The new pariahs: discourse on the tobacco industry in the Sydney press, 1993-97. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 1999 23:233-239.

Chapman S, Borland R, Brownson R, Scollo M, Dominello A, Woodward S. The impact of workplace smoking bans on declining cigarette consumption in Australia and the USA. Am J Public Health 1999; 89:1018-23.

Mitchell P, Chapman S, Smith W. "Smoking is a major cause of blindness": a new cigarette pack warning? Med J Aust 1999;171:173-4. (the main recommendation from this paper led to Australia being the first nation in the world to adopt a pack health warning on smoking causing blindness and to run an awareness campaign)

Chapman S. The news on tobacco control: time to bring the background into the foreground. Tobacco Control 1999; 8:237-9.

Chapman S. If you can’t count it … it doesn’t count: the poverty of econometrics in explaining complex social and behavioural change. Health Promotion J Australia 1999;9:206-7.

1998

Hill D, Chapman S, Donovan R. The return of scare tactics. Tobacco Control 1998;7:5-8.

1997

Chapman S, Hadad S, Sindhusake D. Do workplace smoking bans make smokers smoke "harder"? Results from a naturalistic observational study. Addiction 1997;92:607-10.

Chapman S. When incomes threaten outcomes: a case study of the obstruction of research to reduce teenage smoking. Health Policy 1997;39:55-68.

Chapman S, Davis R. Tobacco use in films: is it a problem? Tobacco Control 1997;6:269-71.

1996

Chapman S. Civil disobedience and tobacco control: the case of BUGA UP. Tobacco Control 1996;5:179-85.

1995

Chapman S, Jones Q, Bauman A, Palin M. "Incidental" depiction of cigarettes and smoking in Australian magazines. Aust J Public Health 1995;19:313-5.

1994

Chapman S. Tobacco and deforestation in the developing world. Tobacco Control 1994;3:191-3.

Chapman S, Smith W. Deception in quit smoking lottery entrants. Am J Health
Promotion
1994;8:328-30.

1993 and earlier

Chapman S, Smith W, Mowbray G, Hugo C, Egger G. Quit and win cessation contests: how should they be evaluated? Prev Med 1993;22:423-32.

Chapman S, Wong WL, Smith W. Self-exempting beliefs about smoking and health: differences between smokers and ex-smokers. Am J Public Health 1993;83:215-9.

Chapman S. Unravelling gossamer with boxing gloves: problems in explaining the decline in smoking. BMJ 1993;307:429-32.

Chapman S, Richardson J. Tobacco excise and declining tobacco consumption: the case of Papua New Guinea. Am J Public Health 1990; 80: 537-40

Borland R, Chapman S, Owen N, Hill D. Effects of a workplace smoking ban on the consumption of cigarettes. Am J Public Health 1990; 80:178-80.

Chapman S. Stop smoking clinics: a case for their abandonment. Lancet April 20 1985;1(8434):918 20.

Chapman S, Fitzgerald B. Brand preference and advertising recall in adolescent smokers:some implications for health promotion. Am J Public Health 1982; 72:491 4.

Chapman S. A David and Goliath story: tobacco advertising and self-regulation in Australia. BMJ 1980;281:1187-90.