Smokers


Blowing out Rudd’s approval

For the first time, party vote breakdowns on smokers and non-smokers are available, helping explain the latest decline in the Labor vote: smokers are ALP voters. Possum Comitatus has the figures.

Smokers revolt! How the cig tax will hurt the working folk

Smokers meet outside buildings across Australia and talk almost every day. Now they are talking of dumping the Rudd government, says Lionel Elmore.

Taking a stab at lung disease: whose numbers do you believe?

Access Economics are playing with digits on smoking related illness, writes Simon Chapman.

Dodgy data: skewing market research for a buck

Is there any bigger purveyor of dodgy data than contemporary market research?