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Big Tobacco's decisive defeat on plain packaging laws won't stop its war against public health

  • Written by Genevieve Wilkinson, Lecturer in Intellectual Property and Human Rights, University of Technology Sydney
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After a decade of legal challenges by the tobacco lobby, Australia’s pioneering push to eliminate all tobacco advertising finally has clear air.

Its longest stoush, over plain packaging laws introduced in 2012, finally ended last month, when the highest adjudicative body of the Word Trade Organisation affirmed a 2018 ruling the...

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