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The policy termites slowly eating out the foundations of smoking

  • Written by Simon Chapman, Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
imageLike a mound of termites, tobacco control policies are eating away at smoking in ways we're not always conscious of.from www.shutterstock.com

Across 40 years of working in tobacco control, there have been countless times when I’ve been asked “so, has [insert here] policy or [insert here] campaign worked?”.

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