Australia's decisive win on plain packaging paves way for other countries to follow suit
- Written by Becky Freeman, Senior Research Fellow, University of Sydney
The decision, handed down on June 9 by the World Trade Organisation’s appeals body, that Australia’s plain packaging tobacco control policy doesn’t flout WTO laws marks the end of almost a decade of legal wrangling over this landmark public health policy. And more importantly, it paves the way for other nations around the world...