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Sweden: cockroach of the year

d.simpson@iath.org

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We have all heard of anti-prizes awarded to highlight particularly bad behaviour by the tobacco industry or its executives—often they are in the USA and feature the word "Butt"—but the "Cockroach of the year" award was new to many when it scuttled into the limelight recently. It is something Swedish colleagues working on the Non-Smoking Generation project have devised, and for 2005, the winner was the unfortunate Professor Ragnar Rylander, who sprang to prominence due to his apparent capacity for forgetting how much he had done behind the scenes to help Philip Morris.

Australia: enough to start kids smoking At the 3rd Australian Tobacco Control Conference in Sydney in November, delegates were entertained by a short set from tobacco control supergroup Puff Daddy and the Rockin’ Rollies. Guitarist Stafford Sanders (ASH), drummer Paul Grogan (Cancer Council Australia), keyboarder Trish Kirby (long suffering wife of Tobacco Control editor Simon Chapman) joined Simon . . . [Full text of this article]