There is a broad consensus that international trade in goods is beneficial, providing of
course that it is fair. Yet not all things that are traded are goods. Some can more …

Aims The alcohol field is becoming more aware of the consequences of world trade law for
alcohol policies. However, there is a need for greater clarity about the different effects of …

The year 2009 marked the centennial of the Shanghai Opium Conference, the first world-
wide agreement on the reduction of opium use and production. China, then still an extremely …

1264 JAMC• 13 MAI 2003; 168 (10) trade barrier—a disguised restriction on free trade or a
prohibited restriction on the use of trademark, or both. The compromises reached …

In her opening address to the 2011 session of the World Health Organization's (WHO)
governing body, the World Health Assembly, WHO's Director-General, Dr. Margaret Chan …

The impending minimum unit pricing (MUP) of alcohol in Scotland, commented on by
Richard Horton in The Lancet (Jan 13, p 106), 1 focuses attention on this public health …

In the nineteenth century there was a continuing discussion on the question of opium eating
and longevity. Experience and evidence from India and China as to whether opiate use …

Evidence that radical solutions are being discussed in PICTs include recent talk of
systematic moves to phase out tobacco products entirely, with smaller Pacific states …

There seems to be ample agreement that tobacco is an addictive harmful substance. The
smoking epidemic is most noticeably affecting third world countries but the developed world …

The Australian Government is engaged in negotiations for a Trans-Pacific Partnership
Agreement (TPP) that may create barriers to Australia introducing the optimal health …