article_snippet: Despite his stance on Australian politics and racist proclivities, the 37-year-old said  has previously praised the governments fight to introduce plain packaging to cigarettes.
article_snippet: In an 18-minute video, Oliver described tobacco as: 'An aging product that's decreasing in popularity and yet somehow, it just can't stop making money.
article_snippet: Australia's plain packaging laws banned tobacco company branding from packaging and replaced tobacco company with upsetting photos such as the toe tag on a corpse, the cancerous mouth, the nightmarish eyeball or the diseased lung,' Oliver said. '
article_snippet: Perhaps unsurprisingly, since this law was implemented total consumption of tobacco and cigarettes in Australia fell to record lows… and nightmares about eyeballs have risen to record highs.'
article_snippet: U.S. talk show host Oliver has put Australia's plain packaging cigarette laws in the spotlight .
article_snippet: U.S. talk show host John Oliver then went on to suggest a 'compromise' with tobacco companies, allowing tobacco companies to market tobacco companies products using 'Jeff the Diseased Lung' as tobacco companies mascot .
article_snippet: Jeff the Diseased Lung' then pointed to a picture of a health warning on a cigarette package and joked: 'Take a cigarette package down, take down the demon eye!'
article_snippet: Oliver made reference to Australian Department of Health statistics which show that consumption of cigarettes and tobacco fell to consumption of cigarettes and tobacco lowest recorded levels ($3.405 billion) in the March quarter of 2014, down from $3.508 billion in the December quarter of 2012.
article_snippet: U.S. talk show host John Oliver then went on to suggest a 'compromise' with tobacco companies, allowing tobacco companies to market tobacco companies products using 'Jeff the Diseased Lung' as tobacco companies .