Investigation of tobacco industry efforts to counteract tobacco control in Australia, 1970-2000

烟草使用仍然是澳大利亚过早死亡的最重要的可预防原因，也是健康不平等的一个关键决定因素。烟草是一种合法销售的产品，它使许多消费者上瘾，主要是青少年，然后在按预期使用时杀死其中一半。需要全面的政策变革、产品监管和诉讼，以结束烟草业几十年来对烟草控制的回避、拖延和破坏。1995年，加州大学弗朗西斯科分校的斯坦·格兰茨（Stan Glantz）在接受《华尔街日报》采访时，将烟草业与其他疾病媒介等同起来：如果你想对疟疾采取行动，你就必须研究蚊子，如果你想对肺癌采取行动，你就必须研究烟草业。只有在当地有具体证据表明烟草业有攻击烟草控制的私人计划和知识，以及烟草业的公开声明和行动旨在误导消费者并有效地阻止或拖延烟草控制的情况下，才能证明监管改革是合理的。这项研究将记录1970年至2000年期间澳大利亚烟草业的公共行动和声明。它将利用烟草控制专家和前州和联邦卫生部长的访谈和个人记录;以及烟草零售业出版物;印刷媒体报道;通过州和联邦卫生部门的信息自由获得的材料;根据30年规则发布的联邦内阁文件（即1972年以前的文件）;以及广播和电视报道。它将补充对烟草业内部文件的平行研究。其结果将是提供具有战略意义的重要证据，以支持澳大利亚在面对持续的行业对策时有效的烟草控制宣传、政策制定、监管和诉讼。

Tobacco use continues to be both the most important preventable cause of premature death and a key determinant of health inequity in Australia. Tobacco is a legally sold product which addicts many of its consumers, mostly as adolescents, and then kills half of them when used as intended. Comprehensive policy change, product regulation and litigation is required to put a halt to the tobacco industry's decades of avoidance, delay and disruption of tobacco control. In an interview for the Wall Street Journal in 1995, Stan Glantz, from the University of California at San Francisco, equated the tobacco industry with other disease vectors: If you want to do something about malaria, you have to study mosquitoes and if you want to do something about lung cancer, you have to study the tobacco industry. Regulatory changes can only be justified by specific local evidence of both the private plans and knowledge of the tobacco industry to attack tobacco control and their public statements and actions designed to mislead consumers and effectively prevent or delay tobacco control. This study will document the public actions and statements of the tobacco industry in Australia between 1970 and 2000. It will draw on interviews with and personal records of tobacco control experts and former state and federal health ministers; as well as tobacco retail trade publications; print media reports; material obtained via Freedom of Information from State and Federal Health Departments; Federal Cabinet papers released under the 30 year rule (ie papers are available from prior 1972); and radio and television reports. It will complement a parallel study of the tobacco industry's internal documents. The outcome will be provision of strategically vital evidence to support effective tobacco control advocacy, policy formation, regulation and litigation in Australia, in the face of continuing industry countermeasures.