August 2012

There are many case studies documenting how the tobacco industry attempts to influence tobacco tax policies but until now there has been no attempt to collate this information. Together with a colleague at the University of Edinburgh, we have published a systematic review of 36 studies (largely in the US) investigating tobacco industry efforts to influence tax policies between 1985 and 2010.

Australian retailers group created to conceal origin of Big Tobacco’s opposition to plain packaging.

In order to plan effective tobacco control policies we must first understand the tobacco industry and this blog illustrates just how this can be done.

A public consultation aimed to help the government gather evidence on the potential impacts of plain packaging ran between the 16th April 2012 and the 10th August 2012. In response to this consultation, the tobacco industry and its allies launched...

We discovered that snus, a smokeless tobacco banned in all EU countries except Sweden, is easily obtainable online - contravening three pieces of EU legislation. Is Swedish legislation doing enough to prohibit exports to other EU countries?

Levels of second-hand smoke  exposure among non-smoking adults fell by almost 30 per cent after smoke free legislation was introduced in England in 2007. The most comprehensive study to date of second-hand smoke exposure among non-smoking adults in England, which...

Children are still exposed to second-hand smoke in the home even though there is evidence that people know that it's harmful. However there’s little evidence to show that people know about the specific illnesses that second-hand smoke can cause. We...