Tobacco company wants schools survey for insights into children and teens

By Nick McKenzie, Richard Baker
Updated August 20 2015 - 8:08am, first published 12:25am
A tobacco giant is using freedom of information laws to obtain data from surveys of Victorian schoolchildren and teenagers revealing their attitudes towards smoking. Photo: Nic Walker
A tobacco giant is using freedom of information laws to obtain data from surveys of Victorian schoolchildren and teenagers revealing their attitudes towards smoking. Photo: Nic Walker
A tobacco giant is using freedom of information laws to obtain data from surveys of Victorian schoolchildren and teenagers revealing their attitudes towards smoking. Photo: Nic Walker
A tobacco giant is using freedom of information laws to obtain data from surveys of Victorian schoolchildren and teenagers revealing their attitudes towards smoking. Photo: Nic Walker
A tobacco giant is using freedom of information laws to obtain data from surveys of Victorian schoolchildren and teenagers revealing their attitudes towards smoking. Photo: Nic Walker
A tobacco giant is using freedom of information laws to obtain data from surveys of Victorian schoolchildren and teenagers revealing their attitudes towards smoking. Photo: Nic Walker
A tobacco giant is using freedom of information laws to obtain data from surveys of Victorian schoolchildren and teenagers revealing their attitudes towards smoking. Photo: Nic Walker
A tobacco giant is using freedom of information laws to obtain data from surveys of Victorian schoolchildren and teenagers revealing their attitudes towards smoking. Photo: Nic Walker

A global tobacco giant is using freedom of information laws to obtain data from surveys by thousands of Victorian school children and teenagers that reveal their attitudes to smoking and alcohol.

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