Tobacco companies declare war
Tobacco companies have promised to spend 'whatever it takes' to fight the Government's plans to remove branding from cigarette packets.
DAVID CROW, CHIEF EXECUTIVE BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO (at press conference): We're launching a campaign.
PHILIPPA MCDONALD, REPORTER (excerpt from ABC News): Today a tobacco giant was crying foul over the Government's plan to do away with branding on cigarette packets.
DAVID CROW (at press conference): And we're spending lots and we'll spend as much as it takes.
NICOLA ROXON, HEALTH MINISTER (at press conference): The tobacco companies are trying to protect their profits.
DAVID CROW (at press conference): There is no proof or credible evidence that this bill will actually be effective.
IAN OLVER, CEO CANCER COUNCIL (at press conference): They sell a product widely despite the fact that it kills 50 per cent of the people who use it.
DAVID CROW (at press conference): This bill will backfire on the Government and lead to more people smoking and more kids smoking.
NICOLA ROXON (at press conference): These are pretty extraordinary claims.
DAVID CROW (at press conference): We are very competitive and we will obviously focus on pricing given it's the only thing really left to focus and differentiate brands.
NICOLA ROXON (at press conference): We expected the tobacco companies to fight us.
TONY ABBOTT, OPPOSITION LEADER (to press): The Coalition in principle supports all reasonable measures to get smoking rates down.
(Man coughing in anti-smoking advertisement)
NICOLA ROXON (at press conference): What we didn't expect is that Mr Abbott would also be fighting us.
TONY ABBOTT (to press): My anxiety with this is that it might end up being counterproductive in practice.
WAYNE SWAN, TREASURER, DEPUTY PREMIER (at press conference): The tobacco companies will want to defend their profits. What the Government wants to do is to save lives.
DAVID CROW (at press conference): The real driver will be illegal tobacco.
(Man coughing in anti-smoking advertisement)
DAVID CROW (at press conference): Chop chop, which is raw tobacco that's brought into Australia and then converted in shops into cigarettes.
DAVID SPEERS (excerpt from PM Agenda, Sky News National): Big tobacco today is worried that the plain packaging, the olive green drab is going to force people to buy chop chop, black-market cigarettes.
DAVID CROW (at press conference): So I'm worried about market share and I'm worried about losing it - not to Philip Morris or Imperial. What I'm concerned about doing is losing it to the triads, the underbelly, the underworld.
(Man coughing in anti-smoking advertisement)
NICOLA ROXON (at press conference): Big tobacco might try all sorts of tricks and we'll obviously have to deal with those.
DAVID CROW (at press conference): I know you guys have got to get on and cover all those other really hefty issues around.
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