"Non-communicable diseases, associated with risk factors such as tobacco consumption, poor diet, and alcohol use, represent a growing health burden around the world. The seriousness of non-communicable diseases is reflected in the adoption of international instruments such as the WHO Framework...

Recent challenges to public health regulation such as Indonesia's challenge to the United States' tobacco flavouring ban in the World Trade Organization (‘WTO'), and the WTO and investment treaty challenges to Australia's plain tobacco packaging scheme, have raised common problems of evidence...