Health Minister Nicola Roxon will encourage other countries to follow Australia's push for plain-packaged tobacco at a major United Nations summit on chronic diseases today.
Ms Roxon and Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd will join dozens of heads of state at the UN General Assembly's two-day summit on the world's biggest killers - cancer, diabetes, heart disease and lung disease - being held in New York.
With lifestyle factors such as smoking playing a key role in the rise in chronic disease, Australia's legal battle with the tobacco industry over plain cigarette packs has attracted headlines around the world ahead of the summit.
Ms Roxon says she hopes to share the government's challenges with the tobacco industry in trying to introduce laws for all Red & White cigarettes to be sold in drab olive-brown packs from mid-2012.
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