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.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Type
Research Project (R01)
Project #
5R01CA087110-02
Application #
6514635
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZCA1-SRRB-Q (J1))
Program Officer
Bloch, Michele H
Project Start
2001-05-21
Project End
2005-04-30
Budget Start
2002-05-01
Budget End
2003-04-30
Support Year
2
Fiscal Year
2002
Total Cost
$172,823
Indirect Cost
Name
University of Sydney
Department
Type
DUNS #
752389338
City
Sydney
State
Country
Australia
Zip Code
2006
Assunta, Mary; Chapman, Simon (2008) The lightest market in the world: light and mild cigarettes in Japan. Nicotine Tob Res 10:803-10
King, Bill; Borland, Ron; Fowles, Jeff (2007) Mainstream smoke emissions of Australian and Canadian cigarettes. Nicotine Tob Res 9:835-44
Vagg, Rosemary; Chapman, Simon (2005) Nicotine analogues: a review of tobacco industry research interests. Addiction 100:701-12
Garne, David; Watson, Megan; Chapman, Simon et al. (2005) Environmental tobacco smoke research published in the journal Indoor and Built Environment and associations with the tobacco industry. Lancet 365:804-9
Assunta, M; Chapman, S (2004) Industry sponsored youth smoking prevention programme in Malaysia: a case study in duplicity. Tob Control 13 Suppl 2:ii37-42
Alechnowicz, K; Chapman, S (2004) The Philippine tobacco industry: ""the strongest tobacco lobby in Asia"". Tob Control 13 Suppl 2:ii71-8
Szilagyi, T; Chapman, S (2004) Tobacco industry efforts to erode tobacco advertising controls in Hungary. Cent Eur J Public Health 12:190-6
King, Bill; Borland, Ron (2004) The ""low-tar"" strategy and the changing construction of Australian cigarettes. Nicotine Tob Res 6:85-94
Assunta, M; Chapman, S (2004) A mire of highly subjective and ineffective voluntary guidelines: tobacco industry efforts to thwart tobacco control in Malaysia. Tob Control 13 Suppl 2:ii43-50
Assunta, M; Chapman, S (2004) The tobacco industry's accounts of refining indirect tobacco advertising in Malaysia. Tob Control 13 Suppl 2:ii63-70

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