Technical Paper 2:
Tobacco Control in Australia: making smoking history
Major sources used in this document
Table of contents
- Overview and summary of action proposed
- Summary of proposed measures
- 1 - Introduction: the big picture
2 - Progress in meeting National Tobacco Strategy objectives: trends and concerns- 3 - Progress in Australia on recommended policies and programs
- 4 - What next, what first and for what cost?
- Major sources used in this document
- References
- Addendum for October 2008 to June 2009
Documents used in preparing this document include:
- postings by members of the International Union Against Cancer’s GLOBALink network on proposals, legislative and regulatory reforms and policies not currently in place in Australia
- updates on policies and programs in Australia and internationally gleaned from media reports and discussion on Quit Victoria’s Tobacco Control Network
- a recent report from the US National Academies’ Institute of Medicine setting out a blueprint for ending the tobacco problem in the US[279]
- reflections by Professor Simon Chapman, editor of Tobacco Control and long-time activist and commentator, on past successes and future directions in tobacco control in Australia and internationally in his book Advocacy and Tobacco Control: Making Smoking History[85, 470]
- recently published and soon-to-be-published major reviews of scientific evidence conducted by international scientific agencies such as the International Agency for Research in Cancer,[117] the US National Cancer Institute[471] and the US Surgeon-General[21, 116]
- reviews and meta-analyses and studies in scientific journals, in particular the BMJ’s Tobacco Control journal, which publishes much of the best international research on population-level interventions[472]
- policy recommendations prepared by international health authorities such as the WHO,[473] the World Bank and the US Centers for Disease Control[474]
- discussion papers prepared by expert groups such as the international Framework Convention Alliance (of non-government agencies)[475]
- reviews of evidence by government agencies prepared as part of regulatory impact statements required prior to consideration by legislators
- meta-analyses of clinical interventions in the Tobacco Module of the Cochrane Collaboration[340]
- published and unpublished research on tobacco promotion and media education conducted by the Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer
- published and unpublished results of the International Tobacco Control Four Nations (ITC 4 Nations) study, which has been assessing the impact of tobacco control policies in Australia compared with the US, the UK and Canada since 2001[82, 84, 476-488]