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Back to the future: tobacco industry interference, evidence and the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control

¹ Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, The Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
² VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control and the Framework Convention Alliance for Tobacco Control, Melbourne, Australia

Correspondence to:
Melanie Wakefield, Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, The Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; melanie.wakefield@cancervic.org.au

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The publication of a special communication by Ronald Davis in this issue (see page 211)¹ about a report on the effect of tobacco advertising bans ("the Boddewyn report") that was in fact ghost-written by British American Tobacco caused one of us to experience a memory flashback to the mid-1980s. At that time, MW was working as a research officer in a state health department in Adelaide, South Australia. I (MW) distinctly remember being given the Boddewyn report to provide comment on to my health minister’s office. Even though I was then an inexperienced researcher, I could see that the report was seriously flawed. Because it was apparently the work of such a prestigious-sounding individual and organisation, I became deeply concerned that it could actually influence government policy. I prepared several pages of critique pointing out the problems with the report, added a concise summary, and sent it back up . . . [Full text of this article]

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