Lecturer in Health Studies, Macquarie University
Dr Ross MacKenzie is a Lecturer in Health Studies at Macquarie University. Research areas include operations of the global tobacco industry; global health governance; tobacco control; the medicalisation of smoking cessation; environmental impacts of tobacco use; and the role of the media in health policy and advocacy.
He has previously worked at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (University of London); School of Public Health University of Sydney; Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) Thailand; and Cancer Council NSW, and is a member of the Global Tobacco Control Research Programme at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.
Big Tobacco’s opposition to plain packaging is spin, not substance
Sep 24, 2018 06:42 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
No matter how you look at it, a standardized cigarette pack is ugly. The colours are unappealing, the font bland and the large graphic health warnings gruesome. Thats why standardized packaging is such an effective public...
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