{"id":231,"date":"2011-11-24T21:27:21","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T21:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/?p=231"},"modified":"2011-11-24T21:29:55","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T21:29:55","slug":"congratulations-australia-on-plain-packaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/2011\/11\/24\/congratulations-australia-on-plain-packaging\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations Australia on plain packaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ruth Malone, Editor<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations  to our colleagues in Australia who have just passed world class,  groundbreaking legislation mandating plain packaging for cigarettes! More details will  follow later in the journal\u2019s News Analysis section, but this really is  taking aim at one of the industry\u2019s major marketing venues, the one smokers hold in their hand and  regard many times a day. Plain packs will help break that bond, which  is undoubtedly why  the industry fought tooth and nail against the bill,  pleading for higher  taxes instead, begging for some other kind of  regulatory reining-in.   Kudos to Australian policymakers who stood with public health and made  protecting the public a higher priority than  protecting the tobacco  companies. Of course, the industry has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/unleashed\/3689878.html\">threatened  lawsuits<\/a>, but the Australian government is ready for them. The journal  salutes all those who have worked so hard to make this possible, and we are proud to have published some of the  research that helped make the case.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;font-size: x-small\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/files\/2011\/11\/plain-pack.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-232 alignleft\" title=\"plain pack\" src=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/files\/2011\/11\/plain-pack.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"340\" height=\"415\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;font-size: x-small\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;font-size: x-small\"> <\/span><\/span><!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruth Malone, Editor Congratulations to our colleagues in Australia who have just passed world class, groundbreaking legislation mandating plain packaging for cigarettes! More details will follow later in the journal\u2019s News Analysis section, but this really is taking aim at one of the industry\u2019s major marketing venues, the one smokers hold in their hand and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/2011\/11\/24\/congratulations-australia-on-plain-packaging\/\">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":[2138,1715,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislation-and-policy","category-marketingadvertising","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","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=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}