The Tobacco Industry (TI): "Unlawful, deceptive
and lethal"
(US
Supreme Court ruling)
ASH would like to see
the tobacco industry taking the same level of responsibility other
businesses are expected to take for the safety and wellbeing of their
consumers and the public - especially young people.
Below are links to just some
of what they've
been doing instead.
But first,
WHO
ARE THEY?
Their products kill 5 million a
year - so who are these people? Not just the three big companies but
also their many stakeholders and supporters.
WHAT ARE THEY UP TO LATELY?
Here are our latest monthly reporting charts of TI
tactics in Australia - their misleading PR, political lobbying, intimidation, "astro-turfing",
promotional ploys and more.
Please contact
us if you know of any additions or changes. Now
in pdf (from Sept 2011)
November
2011 (latest)
October
2011
September
2011
August
2011 July
2011 June
2011 May
2011 April
2011
March
2011 February
2011 Dec
2010 - Jan 2011 Nov 2010
Oct
2010 Sept
2010 Aug
2010
ASH
Australia's Countering
Tobacco Tactics : a guide to
identifying, monitoring and preventing tobacco industry interference
in public health
2010: Step by step
guide to the industry's current tactics in Australia and how to expose
and counter them.
Here are the links to our pages on the
TI:
TOBACCO
INDUSTRY NEWS - latest on the industry's misdeeds
TOBACCO
ADVERTISING, PROMOTION AND SPONSORSHIP (TAPS) - latest slick tricks
and how to identify and monitor them
TOBACCO
INDUSTRY INTERFERENCE IN PUBLIC POLICY - and how to stop it
TOBACCO INDUSTRY MYTHS - spreading
misinformation
TOBACCO INDUSTRY BACKGROUND
- past history and leading figures
TAKING ACTION - what you can do about
it
PACK WATCH
TOBACCO
INDUSTRY NEWS
Read the latest on the industry's many misdeeds,
recent court cases, reports,
internal documents and more. Some lowlights include:
-
misinforming governments and the public
- hiding health harm
- duping smokers with false suggestions
of "safer" products
- using marketing strategies known to be
attractive to children
- using front groups and associated
entities
TOBACCO
ADVERTISING, PROMOTION AND SPONSORSHIP
("TAPS")
As one door closes, the tobacco industry tries to get around or under it
- or forces another one wider open. See some of the tricky new marketing
and promotional manoeuvres by
tobacco companies to slip past those inconvenient advertising laws.
TOBACCO
ADVERTISING WATCH
Tobacco advertising is not dead - there
are many loopholes.
Use this checklist
to identify and monitor
tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship
(TAPS) in your area. You can also share any new examples of TAPS by
uploading them onto this global Facebook
page
TOBACCO
INDUSTRY INTERFERENCE IN PUBLIC POLICY
The industry has a long history of interfering in public health policy -
blocking, weakening, delaying and undermining measures to reduce
smoking. WHO
report 2009
Under Article
5.3 of the WHO's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC),
Australia has an obligation at
all levels of government to end this interference.
WHO has chosen "Tobacco Industry
Interference" as the theme of World No Tobacco Day, May 31 2012. The
campaign will focus on the need to expose and counter the industry's brazen and increasingly aggressive attempts to undermine the
FCTC because of the serious danger these tactics pose to public health. WHO
site
A
January 2012 paper
in American Journal of Public Health, "Inventing Conflicts of
Interest: A History of Tobacco Industry Tactics", shows how, over
many years and with great care, tobacco industry PR experts have shaped
the way scientists, policymakers, media and the public, define scientific
"proof". Full
paper
BUSTING
TOBACCO INDUSTRY MYTHS
Tobacco companies
and their allies continue to muddy the waters: undermining research,
covering up, and fostering myths about smoking, secondhand smoke and
popular measures to counter it. Below are some useful sites that answer
these myths.
TOBACCO
INDUSTRY BACKGROUND
History, the major companies and their market shares, and who's who.
TAKING
ACTION: what you can do about it
Don't like being played for a
sucker? Then fight back.
Here's what you can do...
Tips
for taking tobacco action
This link will help you become
an ASH supporter (no cost)
You
can also help us by supporting
us financially - or with your time and effort…..
Rebutting
the tobacco industry, winning smokefree air
Global Smokefree Partnership 2009 status
report on tobacco industry interference to hold back and undermine
public health legislation. Details the industry’s worldwide tactics of
fear and misinformation, vs the positive impact of governments,
organisations and individuals who are taking them on - with the backing
of the FCTC treaty.
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