'Free' trade agreements and Investor-State Dispute Settlement clauses seem incompatible – antipodean perhaps, no matter what interpretation is put on the word 'free'.Read More
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Public opinion apparently isn't an issue in Australia, where health policy decisions are not based on such opinions and where, presumably, people are told what to think and do by experts.Read More
Retailers in the Australian state of New South Wales seem to be taking a more grown-up attitude to nicotine-containing e-liquids than are the local health authorities.Read More
In Australia, where tobacco prices are astronomically high, the fall in the number of smokers has been tiny. Perhaps it should try nicotine-delivering electronic-cigarettes.Read More
It is hardly surprising that graphic health warnings aren't working in Australia. They are way over the top. They need to get real.Read More
If governments believe they can force people to quit smoking completely by increasing the prices of cigarettes, they must believe also that tobacco addiction is not strong.Read More
Tobacco- and alcohol-consumption are relatively high in the Australian state of Tasmania, but, nationally, it is the use of the illicit drug, ice, that is seen as the ‘stand-out problem’.Read More
An Australian committee looking at the use of electronic cigarettes has taken a ‘precautionary’ position – probably the most dangerous approach of all.Read More
Researching what can be done with the huge quantity of cigarette butts discarded each year is a road well-traveled.Read More
Although it is illegal to grow tobacco in Australia now, the country has a history of tobacco production and some widely dispersed areas where it is known that this crop will grow.Read More