The Ministry of Health’s recent announcement of a realignment of tobacco control services has heralded a welcome focus on the New Zealand Government’s Smokefree 2025 goal, and an acknowledgement th
To examine the ‘nanny state’ arguments used by tobacco companies, explore the cognitive biases that impede smokers’ ability to make fully informed choices, and analyse the imp
Australian tobacco companies have introduced evocative variant names that could re-create the aspirational connotations plain packaging aims to remove.
This article provides an overview of the Global Tobacco Industry. It was compiled by tobacco control researchers, George Thomson and Nick Wilson from the University of Otago, Wellington.
Tobacco companies have described Australia as a ‘dark’ market, because the country’s ban on advertising and point-of-sale display and the requirement for plain packaging of tobacco limit