Harry Clarke

The proposals for increasing the tax on cigarettes by 17.5 cents per stick and for introducing a minimum price on booze are worthy of analysis.   Proposals are also developed for dealing with obesity but I will not discuss those here.
The report by the National Preventative Health Strategy is here.

Here is an opinion piece I wrote for ABC News online.

I posted earlier this year on the strong growth in cigarette carcinogen sales despite the financial crisis.  The world’s largest carcinogen producer, Altria, had earnings per share growth of 10% in 2008 and was increasingly moving into the ethyl alcohol market.  Altria also split into two businesses in March 2008 Phillip Morris International (internationally-based) and [...]