AUSTRALIA PREPARES TO BREAK GLOBAL GROUND WITH TOBACCO PLAIN PAPER PACKAGING LAW
June 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL and EMMA JACKSON
AUSTRALIA'S tobacco industry can be expected to put up a strong fight against a federal government proposal to mandate plain paper packaging for its products. And it will doubtless have the support of the international tobacco industry because this planned legislation is a clear test case. If Australia manages to overcome industry objections regarding intellectual property, anti-smoking governments would probably push plain paper packaging laws worldwide.
The country's Labour Party government announced in April it would table ...
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