{"id":1079,"date":"2014-06-17T01:24:04","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T01:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2014-06-17T01:25:21","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T01:25:21","slug":"debunking-the-tobacco-industry-take-on-australias-plain-packaging-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/2014\/06\/17\/debunking-the-tobacco-industry-take-on-australias-plain-packaging-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Debunking the tobacco industry take on Australia&#8217;s plain packaging laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not having succeeded in preventing Australian plain packaging laws from being enacted, the tobacco industry has now turned its efforts to convincing other nations to not follow Australia&#8217;s lead. Last week it was reported that smoking had actually increased under the plain packaging laws &#8211; a claim that has been expertly taken down by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/mediawatch\/more.htm\">ABC Media Watch.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watch the full story here:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff00ff\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/mediawatch\/transcripts\/s4026465.htm\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff\">http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/mediawatch\/transcripts\/s4026465.htm<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Media Watch is Australia&#8217;s leading forum for media analysis and comment. Conflicts of interest, bank backflips, deceit, misrepresentation, manipulation, plagiarism, abuse of power, technical lies and straight out fraud: Media Watch has built an unrivalled record of exposing media shenanigans since it first went to air in 1989.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not having succeeded in preventing Australian plain packaging laws from being enacted, the tobacco industry has now turned its efforts to convincing other nations to not follow Australia&#8217;s lead. Last week it was reported that smoking had actually increased under the plain packaging laws &#8211; a claim that has been expertly taken down by ABC [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/2014\/06\/17\/debunking-the-tobacco-industry-take-on-australias-plain-packaging-laws\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6820,2143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plain-packaging","category-tobacco-industry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}