Tobacco Control: Australia's Role
Transcript of Witness Seminar
Introduction
Building the case for tobacco control
Producing, and Responding to, the Evidence
Campaigning for Tobacco Control
Economic Initiatives in Tobacco Control
The Radical Wing of Tobacco Control
Revolutionary Road
Tobacco Industry Strategies and Responses to Them
Campaign Evaluation
Managing Difficulties in Light of Community Consensus
Radical Wing Again
The Process of Political Change
Tobacco Campaigns Up Close
A Speedier Pace of Change
Political Needs and Campaign Strategies
Litigation and its Impacts
Insights from Tobacco Control
Tobacco Control in Australia in International Perspective
Appendix 1: Statement by Anne Jones
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Thank you for sharing the reflections on tobacco control from the Witness Seminar as I am working mostly overseas in tobacco control and was unable to attend. I would like to add a paragraph if I may on lessons learned from our experiences in Australia as I hope this exercise can also be used to look forward by considering how our past few decades of tobacco control may help the majority of countries that are facing an aggressive tobacco industry and escalating tobacco deaths.
Main lessons learned are that - Successful advocacy is very dependent upon strong, local evidence and a united position among advocates to gain support of leaders in government as well as public and media support.
Successful advocacy is very dependent upon strong, local evidence and a united position among advocates to gain support of leaders in government as well as public and media support.
Victims of tobacco and legal actions on their behalf have been effective in improving the enforcement of tobacco control laws and exposing the tactics of the tobacco industry
Although the tobacco industry as the vector of disease has been challenged and restricted in Australia it still remains largely exempt from product regulation.
Australia as a world leader in tobacco control needs to avoid complacency by continuing to develop models for regulating the tobacco industry beyond plain packaging.
My concern is we don't want to get too smug about achievements when rest of world is being targeted by tobacco industry.
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