Smoking offensive revealed
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25/06/1998
The tobacco giant Philip Morris considered challenging Australia's health warnings on cigarettes and Victoria's workers' compensation laws as part of a billion-dollar global offensive against the anti-smoking movement, a confidential industrydocument reveals. Philip Morris also planned to "diffuse and reorient" the World Health Organisation and the International Union Against Cancer, and to oppose airline smoking bans and legislation restricting smoking in restaurants globally.