Analysis of tobacco industry documents--Asia/Australia

描述(由申请人提供) 该项目将定位、编目、审查和传播战略 迄今“秘密”的国家、地区和国际意义 包含有关烟草控制的明确材料的烟草行业文件 六个国家的问题：澳大利亚；新西兰；中国/香港；泰国； 印度尼西亚和马来西亚。这些国家中的每一个都是因为 他们过去和现在对全球不同的历史意义 烟草控制方面的重大问题或倡议。全球范围内，全球 在欠发达地区，吸烟对公共健康的影响越来越大 而不是像美国这样的先进工业化国家。这个 烟草行业的跨国性质意味着政策和 这些公司在其他国家的活动将会越来越多 与美国的发展相关。作为世界卫生组织的 无烟倡议的发展与其雄心勃勃的开发一个国际 框架公约，涵盖烟草管制的许多方面和 市场营销、烟草行业政策的国际层面以及 实践将变得更加重要。 例如，澳大利亚和新西兰的烟草控制要先进得多 在广告限制、包装警告、 和烟草税水平。获取烟草行业内幕知识 政治和监管环境中的战略进一步“顺着轨道前进” 比目前在美国运营的那些将允许有价值的洞察(对于 例如)广告控制行业在以下情况下参与的“终局游戏” 所有正统的广告形式都是法律禁止的。世界上两个国家 研究，中国和印度尼西亚分别位居第一和第四 地球上人口稠密的国家。这两个国家的男性吸烟率都很高 并构成烟草行业最优先考虑的市场。 已经找到的文件表明了精心设计和持续的努力，在中国 尤其是混淆由主动和被动引起的健康问题 并将烟草行业科学家的网络扩展到亚洲 公共卫生机构。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) This project will locate, catalogue, review and disseminate the strategic national, regional and international significance of the hitherto "secret" tobacco industry documents containing explicit material about tobacco control issues in six nations: Australia; New Zealand; China/Hong Kong; Thailand; Indonesia; and Malaysia. Each of these nations have been selected because of their past and continuing historic importance to different globally significant issues or initiatives in tobacco control. Globally, the global public health impact of tobacco use is becoming greater in less developed nations than in advanced industrialized nations like the USA. The transnational nature of the tobacco industry means that the policies and activities of these companies in other nations will become increasingly relevant to developments in the USA. As the World Health Organization's Tobacco Free Initiative evolves with its ambitions to develop an international framework convention covering many aspects of tobacco regulation and marketing, the international dimensions of the tobacco industry's policies and practices will assume even greater importance. Australia and New Zealand, for example, have far more advanced tobacco control policies than the USA in the areas of advertising restrictions, pack warnings, and tobacco tax levels. Acquiring inside knowledge of tobacco industry strategies in political and regulatory environments further "down the track" than those now operating in the USA will allow valuable insights into (for example) the advertising control "endgames" in which the industry engages when all orthodox forms of advertising are banned by law. Two nations in the study, China and Indonesia, are, respectively, the first and fourth most populated nations on earth. Both countries have very high male smoking rates and constitute markets of the highest priority to the tobacco industry. Documents already located indicate elaborate and continuing efforts, in China in particular, to obfuscate the health issues arising from active and passive smoking and to extend the network of tobacco industry scientists into Asian public health institutions.