ReviewHealth policy (Amsterdam, Netherlands)2018
The tobacco industry's challenges to standardised packaging: A comparative analysis of issue framing in public relations campaigns in four countries.
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- Generating opposition to universal health care policies in the United States: An analysis of private health industry advertising on Meta platforms.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Industry influence on public health policy formulation in the UK: a complex systems approach.Health promotion international · 2024Article
- Framing the policy debate over tobacco control legislation and tobacco taxation in South Africa.Tobacco control · 2023Article
- Power and Other Commercial Determinants of Health: An Empirical Study of the Australian Food, Alcohol, and Gambling Industries.International journal of health policy and management · 2023Article
- Meat, money and messaging: How the environmental and health harms of red and processed meat consumption are framed by the meat industry.Food policy · 2022Article
- Overcoming tobacco industry opposition to standardized packaging in the Americas.Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health · 2022Article
- Progress, challenges and the need to set concrete goals in the global tobacco endgame.Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health · 2022Article
- Longitudinal evaluation of the impact of standardised packaging and minimum excise tax on tobacco sales and industry revenue in the UK.Tobacco control · 2021Article
- Corporate power and the international trade regime preventing progressive policy action on non-communicable diseases: a realist review.Health policy and planning · 2021Review
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- Plain packaging of tobacco products: Lessons for the next round of implementing countries.Tobacco induced diseases · 2020Article
- Pre-emption strategies to block taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages: A framing analysis of Facebook advertising in support of Washington state initiative-1634.Global public healthArticle
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Abstract
Tobacco industry public relations campaigns have played a key role in challenges to standardised cigarette packaging. This paper presents a comparative analysis of industry campaigns in Australia and the United Kingdom, which have implemented standardised packaging legislation; Canada, where policy has been adopted but not yet implemented; and the Netherlands, which has considered, but not enacted regulation. Campaigns were identified via Google searches, tobacco industry websites, media coverage, government submissions and previous research; analysis focused on issue framing and supporting evidence. Public relations campaigns in all case study countries drew on similar frames - the illicit trade in tobacco products, the encroaching 'nanny state', lack of evidence for the effectiveness of standardised packaging, a slippery slope of regulation, and inherent threats to intellectual property rights. These claims were supported by industry research, front groups and commissioned reports by accountancy firms, but were not with verifiable research. Independent evidence that contradicted industry positions was overlooked. Similarities in structure and content of public relations campaigns in countries that have enacted or considered regulation points to a strategic co-ordinated approach by cigarette manufacturers. Countries considering standardised packaging policy can expect powerful opposition from the tobacco industry. Tobacco control communities and policy makers can learn from previous experience, and share best practise in countering industry arguments.
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