Acknowledgments

Editors Michelle Scollo and Margaret Winstanley
Project manager Kylie Lindorff
Chapter authors

Chapter 1 Trends in the prevalence of smoking

  • Margaret Winstanley
    VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control, Cancer Council Victoria
  • Vicki White
    Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, Cancer Council Victoria

Chapter 2 Trends in tobacco consumption

  • Michelle Scollo
    VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control, Cancer Council Victoria

Chapter 3 The health effects of active smoking

  • Margaret Winstanley
    VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control, Cancer Council Victoria

Chapter 4 The health effects of secondhand smoke

  • Margaret Winstanley
    VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control, Cancer Council Victoria

Chapter 5 Factors influencing the uptake and prevention of smoking

  • Margaret Winstanley
    VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control, Cancer Council Victoria
  • Lisa Wood
    School of Population Health, The University of Western Australia

Chapter 6 Addiction

  • Margaret Winstanley
    VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control, Cancer Council Victoria

Chapter 7 Smoking Cessation

  • Andrew Ellerman
    Formerly Quit South Australia
  • Carolyn Ford
    Quit Victoria
  • Suzie Stillman
    Quit Victoria

Chapter 8 Tobacco use among Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders

  • Margaret Winstanley
    VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control, Cancer Council Victoria

Chapter 9 Smoking and social disadvantage

  • Michelle Scollo
    VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control, Cancer Council Victoria
  • Mohammed Siahpush
    Department of Health Promotion, Social and Behavioral Health, College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center

Chapter 10 The tobacco industry in Australian society

  • Margaret Winstanley
    VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control, Cancer Council Victoria

Chapter 11 Tobacco advertising and promotion

  • Becky Freeman
    School of Public Health, The University of Sydney
  • Simon Chapman
    School of Public Health, The University of Sydney

Chapter 12 The construction and labelling of Australian cigarettes

  • Bill King
    VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control, Cancer Council Victoria

Attachment 12A Health warnings

  • Michelle Scollo
    VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control, Cancer Council Victoria

Attachment 12B Reduced fire risk (RFR) cigarettes

  • Nicole Antonopoulos
    VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control, Cancer Council Victoria
  • Margaret Winstanley
    VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control, Cancer Council Victoria

Attachment 12C Smokeless tobacco and harm reduction

  • Coral Gartner
    School of Population Health, The University of Queensland

Chapter 13 The pricing and taxation of tobacco products in Australia

  • Michelle Scollo
    VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control, Cancer Council Victoria

Chapter 14 Social marketing and public education campaigns

  • Tom Carroll
    Carroll Communications, Social Marketing and Research Consultants; and School of Public Health, The University of Sydney

Chapter 15 Smokefree environments

  • Kathy Barnsley
    Cancer Council of Tasmania; Menzies Research Institute and School of Government, University of Tasmania
  • Becky Freeman
    School of Public Health, The University of Sydney

Chapter 16 Tobacco litigation in Australia

  • Jonathan Liberman
    VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control, Cancer Council Victoria

Section 16.2 , Section 16.3

  • David Ruschena
    University of Melbourne

Attachment 16.2

  • Stefanie Driskell
    VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control, Cancer Council Victoria

Chapter 17 The economics of tobacco control

  • Anita Lal
    VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control, Cancer Council Victoria
  • Michelle Scollo
    VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control, Cancer Council Victoria

Chapter 18 The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control

  • Madeleine Heyward
    VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control, Cancer Council Victoria
  • Jonathan Liberman
    VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control, Cancer Council Victoria

The editors and project manager thank the following individuals who provided expert comment on various chapters in Tobacco in Australia: Facts and Issues (2008):

  • Matthew Allen
  • James Balmford
  • Martin Bicevskis
  • Ron Borland
  • Simon Chapman
  • David Collins
  • Joy deBeyer
  • Becky Freeman
  • Coral Gartner
  • Wayne Hall
  • Rowena Ivers
  • Konrad Jamrozik
  • Kylie Lindorff
  • Jane Martin
  • Andrew Penman
  • Anne-Marie Perucic
  • Fiona Phillips
  • Melanie Wakefield

A number of Quit Victoria staff advised on the research, writing and publication of this project. These include Carolyn Ford, Jane Martin, Kylie Lindorff, Nicole Antonopoulos, Sally Robinson and Ian Ferretter. Library services were provided by Marina Haritos, of Quit Victoria, and KRin Pender-Gunn, of Cancer Council Victoria. Their good-humoured and tireless support is gratefully acknowledged. Vicki White, Sarah Durkin and Melanie Wakefield from the Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer at Cancer Council of Victoria provided data for and advice on several chapters. Coral Gartner of the School of Population Health, the University of Queensland, and David Collins of the School of Economics, Macquarie University, also provided additional data and advice.

Jane Martin and Todd Harper, previously policy and information manager and executive director of Quit Victoria respectively, initiated planning and obtained funding for this project. Their successors, Kylie Lindorff and Fiona Sharkie, managed this project to completion.

The writing and production of this book was seeded by an initial grant by National Expert Advisory Committee on Tobacco and subsequently supported by The Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing. The ongoing support of the department is acknowledged, and in particular the assistance of the Tobacco and Drug Prevention Section.