Almost half of tobacco lobbyists in Australia have held positions in government, study finds
by Melissa Davey medical editor from World news | The Guardian on (#6BMM0)
Research investigates the revolving door' between the tobacco industry and politics and how it influences policy
Understanding the links between tobacco companies, their lobbyists and Australian politics was like doing a complex, 5,000-piece jigsaw with many missing or blank pieces", Cancer Council NSW researcher Melissa Jones says.
In research that took several months, Jones and her colleagues found almost half (48%) of internal tobacco company lobbyists held positions in state, territory or federal government before or after working in the tobacco industry.
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