King W, Carter S M, Borland R, Chapman S, Gray N
VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control, The Cancer Council Victoria, Victoria, Australia.
Tob Control. 2003 Dec;12 Suppl 3(Suppl 3):iii61-70. doi: 10.1136/tc.12.suppl_3.iii61.
To document the development of the low tar harm reduction programme in Australia, including tobacco industry responses.
Tobacco industry documents, retail tobacco journals, newspapers, medical journals, and Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria (ACCV) newsletters and archival records.
Documents on the strategies and knowledge bases of the ACCV, other Australian health authorities, and the tobacco industry.
The ACCV built a durable system for measuring and publicising the tar and nicotine yields of Australian cigarettes and influencing their development. The tobacco industry initially sought to block the development of this system but later appeared to cooperate with it, as is evidenced by the current market dominance of low tar brands. However, behind the scenes, the industry used its substantial knowledge advantage regarding compensatory smoking and its ability to re-engineer cigarettes to gain effective control of the system and subvert the ACCV's objectives.
Replacement of the low tar programme with new means of minimising the harms from cigarette smoking should be a policy priority for the Australian government. This will require regulation, rather than further voluntary agreements, and stringent monitoring of successor programmes will be necessary.
记录澳大利亚低焦油减害计划的发展情况，包括烟草行业的应对措施。
烟草行业文件、零售烟草期刊、报纸、医学期刊以及维多利亚抗癌理事会（ACCV）的时事通讯和档案记录。
关于ACCV、其他澳大利亚卫生当局以及烟草行业的策略和知识基础的文件。
ACCV建立了一个持久的系统，用于测量和公布澳大利亚香烟的焦油和尼古丁含量，并影响其发展。烟草行业最初试图阻止该系统的发展，但后来似乎与之合作，目前低焦油品牌在市场上占据主导地位就证明了这一点。然而，在幕后，该行业利用其在补偿性吸烟方面的巨大知识优势以及重新设计香烟的能力，有效地控制了该系统并颠覆了ACCV的目标。
用新的方法来尽量减少吸烟危害以取代低焦油计划，应成为澳大利亚政府的政策重点。这将需要监管，而不是进一步的自愿协议，并且有必要对后续计划进行严格监测。
