Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Plain Packaging of Tobacco ProductsThis special edition of the QUT Law Review considers the international debate over the introduction of Australia's pioneering plain packaging of tobacco products. This collection explores the various legal issues raised by tobacco control under public health law, constitutional law, intellectual property, international law, international trade, investor-state dispute settlement, human rights, and sustainable development. Australian scholars consider Australia's legal defence of plain packaging of tobacco products in an array of arenas - including the High Court of Australia, an investor-state dispute settlement tribunal, and the World Trade Organization. International experts consider the introduction of plain packaging of tobacco products in New Zealand, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Canada, and other pioneering public health countries. This collection also considers the adoption of new complementary tobacco control measures - such as tobacco divestment initiatives.ForewordThe Hon. Nicola Roxon (Victoria University)It gives me great pleasure to write a forward on this topic at a time when there is such a groundswell of international support for plain packaging of tobacco products. World No Tobacco today in 2016 had as its tag line “Get ready for plain packaging” and the world’s health ministers are doing just that.When Australia became the first country in the world to remove all colours and logos on tobacco packs in 2011 – recognising their allure to young new smokers – the tobacco industry tried every move in their book to stop us. Lobbying, donations, advertising campaigns, threats, dodgy research, front groups, overblown claims and legal action dominated our political debate for two years. When all these local manoeuvres failed, the industry switched its effort to ensuring we were the only country to take this step.Writing in November 2016, it is clear that those efforts, both local and international, have manifestly failed. Country after country – France, the UK, Ireland, Canada, Norway, New Zealand – are implementing plain packaging, passing their laws or consulting with the community before introduction and many more countries will move this way in the coming months and years.Plain packaging of tobacco products is now truly an international movement. It is an epidemic of the best sort, as countries catch on to its value, purpose and ease of implementation. We will now see its introduction spread like wildfire around the world.When we announced the introduction of plain packaging in Australia, it was a world first.The Government I was part of has received much praise for our resolve and foresight to see this through, from smooth implementation to the great early results already showing significant impact in the reduction of smoking rates across the country. ...(1) 'Tobacco Plain Packaging in Australia: JT International v Commonwealth and Beyond'Dr Catherine Bond (UNSW)(2) 'Regulatory Chill: Learnings from New Zealand's Plain Packaging Tobacco Law'Professor Jane Kelsey (University of Auckland)(3) 'Property and Proportionality: Evaluating Ireland's Tobacco Packaging Legislation'Dr Eoin O’Dell (Trinity College Dublin)(4) 'The Tobacco Industry's Challenge to the United Kingdom's Standardised Packaging Legislation - Global Lessons for Tobacco Control Policy?'Professor Jonathan Griffiths (Queen Mary, University of London)(5) 'Making the Case for Canada to Join the Tobacco Plain Packaging Revolution'Dr Becky Freeman (University of Sydney)(6) 'Investor-State Dispute Settlement and Tobacco Control: Implications for Non-Communicable Diseases Prevention and Consumption-Control Measures'Dr Hope Johnson (QUT)(7) 'The Global Tobacco Epidemic, The Plain Packaging of Tobacco Products, and the World Trade Organization'Professor Matthew Rimmer (QUT)(8) 'Tobacco-Free Investment: Harnessing the Power of the Finance Industry in Comprehensive Tobacco Control'Dr Bronwyn King, Clare Payne, and Emily Stone (Tobacco-Free Futures)
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.015 | 0.006 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".