Enforcing law on tobacco sales to minors: getting the question and action right [webpage]
Douglas C. Tutt / New South Wales Public Health Bulletin, February 2009.

There is a substantial history of health-related law in Australia, but only recently has this included a significant amount of state regulation pertaining to tobacco promotion, sale and public use. The important question is: under what circumstances do regulation and law enforcement work? Rigorous, energetic, long-term local law enforcement on the supply of tobacco to minors demonstrates success in preventing uptake. A model for success combines education, enforcement and publicity; a model used to some effect in alcohol law. Future directions in regulation might include on-the-spot penalties; ensuring the law is simple and has community support; striving for sufficient resources, enthusiasm and skills; and making the tobacco retail industry pay some of the costs of regulating that industry.

Indigenous tobacco control in Australia: everybody's business, National Indigenous Tobacco Control Research Roundtable report [pdf - 4.38Mb]
Peter Russ and Anke van der Sterren / Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Tobacco Control, February 2009.

This publication reports on the roundtable discussions of The National Indigenous Tobacco Control Research where sixty-six representatives from community-controlled organisations, research institutions, state, territory and federal governments, and non-government organisations discussed gaps and priorities in the research agenda in Indigenous tobacco control.
Five keys areas which required further analysis were identified:
• creating positive environments for smoking cessation
• improving our understanding of motivations for smoking and not smoking
• improving our knowledge of best practice interventions
• empowering and supporting the health workforce
• best use of resources to support tobacco control
The report highlighted the need to carry these key ideas forward, for example, in terms of the Federal Government’s National Indigenous Tobacco Iniatitive.

Rules of engagement: Policing anti-social behaviour and alcohol-related violence in and around licensed premises [pdf - 3.10Mb]

Fleming, Jenny. NS W Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, 2008.

This report provides an overview of the ways in which Australian police services are adapting their systems and developing strategies to prevent and manage alcohol-related violence in and around licensed premises. The report acknowledges the diverse nature of policing across Australian states and territories. It does not attempt to compare and contrast administration or strategy across the various jurisdictions. The report is not an exhaustive study of police activity, rather a first step in identifying the strategies adopted, the boundaries within which police operate and the ‘limits to the possible’. The report demonstrates that the police develop and adapt their strategies in the context of these limits.

Final Report to the Alcohol Education and Rehabilitation Foundation: Trialling ‘Social Norms’ Strategies for Minimising Alcohol-Related Harm Among Rural Youth (Social Norms Analysis Project) [pdf - 910Kb]
Hughes, Clarissa, Julian, Roberta, Richman, Matthew, Mason, Ron, Long, Gillian. Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies 2008

This document is the Final Report to the Alcohol Education and Rehabilitation Foundation (AERF) for the Project ‘Trialling Social Norms Strategies for Minimising Alcohol Related Harm Among Rural Youth’ – the Social Norms Analysis Project (SNAP). SNAP is the first major Australian trial of the Social Norms (SN) approach to health promotion.

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