Analysis of tobacco industry documents--Asia/Australia

描述（由申请人提供） 该项目将查找、编目、审查和传播战略 迄今为止“秘密”在国家、区域和国际上的意义 烟草业文件载有明确的烟草控制材料 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。 每一个国家都被选中，因为 他们的过去和持续的历史重要性，以不同的全球 烟草控制方面的重大问题或举措。 在全球范围内， 烟草使用对公共健康的影响在欠发达国家越来越大， 发达工业化国家，如美国。 的 烟草业的跨国性质意味着， 这些公司在其他国家的活动将越来越多 与美国的发展有关。 作为世界卫生组织的 无烟草倡议的发展与其发展国际 涵盖烟草管制许多方面的框架公约， 烟草业政策的国际层面， 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、 烟草税水平。 获取烟草行业内部知识 政治和监管环境中的战略进一步“走上正轨” 比那些现在在美国运作的将允许有价值的见解（为 例如）广告控制“残局”，该行业在 法律禁止一切正统形式的广告。 两国在 中国和印度尼西亚分别是第一和第四大 地球上的人口大国。 这两个国家的男性吸烟率都很高 并构成烟草业最优先考虑的市场。 已经找到的文件表明，在中国， 特别是，混淆主动和被动引起的健康问题， 并将烟草业科学家网络扩展到亚洲 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.