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Legal does not mean unaccountable: suing tobacco companies to recover health care costs
Author(s) -
MacKenzie Ross,
LeGresley Eric,
Daube Mike
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/mja17.00310
Subject(s) - business , actuarial science
Pivotal achievements such as plain packaging may feed complacency and policy inertia. Unless the momentum of tobacco control is maintained with further innovative approaches, the industry will inevitably develop new strategies to undermine measures in place, and public health gains will be at risk. We have seen this before in Australia, during the period of relative regulatory inactivity after the introductionof tobacco advertisingbans at state and national levels in the 1980s and early 1990s.