TY - JOUR T1 - From Perth to Wellington: a 30-year journey JF - Tobacco Control JO - Tob Control SP - 123 LP - 124 DO - 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2021-057234 VL - 31 IS - 2 AU - Kenneth E Warner Y1 - 2022/03/01 UR - http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/31/2/123.abstract N2 - In 1990, at the 7th World Conference on Smoking and Health in Perth, Western Australia, a group of tobacco control researchers met in an informal meeting to discuss the idea of creating a journal devoted exclusively to tobacco control. I expressed scepticism, unconvinced that there was enough high-quality research to sustain a journal so singularly focused on one health behaviour. Fortunately, the more visionary participants in that meeting prevailed and in March 1992, issue 1 of volume 1 of Tobacco Control was published. My scepticism notwithstanding, Dr Ron Davis, the journal’s founding editor-in-chief, asked me to chair the Editorial Advisory Board, a position I have been honoured to fill since the journal’s inception.That my scepticism was unwarranted has been demonstrated a hundred times over, quite literally. Prior to this 30th anniversary issue, by my count the journal has published 154 regular issues, plus 49 supplements and 18 e-supplements. That amounts to 221 issues of all three varieties. With each containing 15 or more independent intellectual contributions, from editorials to original research papers to reviews, that amounts to over 3000 contributions to better understanding the nature of tobacco product use, how it can be reduced, how forces increasing and decreasing tobacco product use affect core health indices including death tolls and life expectancy, how politics, economics, law, social interaction and tobacco industry … ER -