Big Tobacco distributes report bullying plain packaging laws

By Mark Hawthorne and Vanessa Desloires
Updated November 28 2014 - 5:13pm, first published November 27 2014 - 9:00pm
Boxed in: Philip Morris and British American Tobacco have released a report attacking plain packaging. Photo: Nic Walker
Boxed in: Philip Morris and British American Tobacco have released a report attacking plain packaging. Photo: Nic Walker
Boxed in: Philip Morris and British American Tobacco have released a report attacking plain packaging. Photo: Nic Walker
Boxed in: Philip Morris and British American Tobacco have released a report attacking plain packaging. Photo: Nic Walker
Boxed in: Philip Morris and British American Tobacco have released a report attacking plain packaging. Photo: Nic Walker
Boxed in: Philip Morris and British American Tobacco have released a report attacking plain packaging. Photo: Nic Walker
Boxed in: Philip Morris and British American Tobacco have released a report attacking plain packaging. Photo: Nic Walker
Boxed in: Philip Morris and British American Tobacco have released a report attacking plain packaging. Photo: Nic Walker

The two biggest tobacco companies in Australia have begun a campaign to undermine the nation's plain packaging laws, ahead of a Department of Health review of the effectiveness of the regulations.