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Topic: cigarette packagaing

Plain packaging vindicated as court burns Philip Morris

Australia

Jul 12, 2016

6

Crikey readers have their say.

Off tap on bottled water

Comments, corrections, clarifications and cock-ups

May 18, 2011

9

Julia Gillard is getting very close to looking like a Prime Ministerial joke.

A hasty decision on boat people

Richard Farmer’s chunky bits

May 17, 2011

As the government keeps pointing out, Australia would be the first to legislate for plain cigarette packaging which inherently brings with it legitimate debate about its legality, writes <b>Tim Wilson</b>.

Tobacco debate: plain packaging anything but plain sailing

Companies

Jun 08, 2010

11

Plain cigarette packaging was removed from the public health agenda in the '90s due to the threat of legal action. But in 2010, it seems governments won’t be so easily scared off by this legal hot air, write <b>Becky Freeman</b> and Professor <b>Simon Chapman</b>.

On ciggies, Australia the world leader in public health reform

Companies

Apr 30, 2010

23

One <em>Crikey</em> reader writes that it's time to tax smoking in films. Plus, the hypocritical end of the ETS, finally a non-lefto editorial and suggestions for the Henry Tax Review.

Time to fight like the Na’vi against smoking

Comments, corrections, clarifications and cock-ups

Apr 30, 2010

5

<b>Daily media wrap</b>: Australia has gone into a cigarette-buying frenzy, with news that smoke prices would jump 25% overnight. But is the country also buying into Rudd's ETS smokescreen?

Cigs up: just a puff of hot (smokey) air?

Federal

Apr 30, 2010

2

If smokers are not imposing any net cost on society, why are we endlessly assailing them and the companies that cater to their addictions?

Preventative health lobby inflicting serious damage on our freedom

Federal

Apr 29, 2010

55

So the Rudd government is adopting the world's "most draconian" cigarette packaging regulations? Good, says <b>Nicholas Gruen</b>.

Draconian, perhaps, but changing fag packaging will work

Federal

Apr 29, 2010

4

Yep, according to this 2008 study from the <em>British Medical Journal</em>'s <em>Tobacco Control</em> journal. Smokers presume cigarettes in plain packs will be "less rich in tobacco, less satisfying and of lower quality tobacco."

Do plain cigarette packs stop people from smoking?

Federal

Apr 29, 2010

There are 10 articles in cigarette packagaing