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Category: Tobacco

Image says Vote for Public Health, prevention and tobacco control, voteforpublichealth.com. It also features three vectors of a plant with a dollar sign, a no-smoking image, and a no vaping image.

An election campaign bereft of prevention efforts that could save lives: Daube

Emeritus Professor Mike Daube AO, PHAA President (2007-2010) Another day, another election spending announcement. Both major parties are promising funding … More

2022 Federal Election, Prevention, Public Health, tobacco control
Composite image shows a vector depicting a a graph, upward arrow and a dollar symbol. Beside this vector is a screenshot of the cover of the 2022-23 Budget Submission.

Public health measures can help balance the Budget

Adjunct Professor Terry Slevin – PHAA CEO This post is the second in our series of articles exploring the PHAA’s … More

Alcohol, Budget 2022-23, sugar tax, taxation, tobacco
Addy Carroll AM left Shirley Frizzell and Hon Roger Cook MLA, Deputy Premier of Western Australia and Minister for Health

Powerful pair recognised for decades of persistence at tobacco control

Paris Lord – PHAA Editor’s note: this Intouch post is longer than usual, but is worth your time, particularly if … More

awards, tobacco control, western australia
Person in black shirt smoking an e-cigarette

Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia ‘get-tough’ against vaping as new ANZJPH report shows widespread use in Kiwi schools

Jeremy Lasek – PHAA It’s now just over 100 days since Australia introduced strict new laws which mean you can … More

nicotine, Public Health, vaping
Single cigarette, standing vertically on a table

Despite a downward trend, smoking is still taking too many Australian lives

Jeremy Lasek – PHAA While the prevalence of smoking has steadily declined (by 75%) in the last 40 years in … More

Mental Health, Public Health, tobacco
Dr Michelle Jongenelis

PHAA recognises our 2021 Emerging Leader, e-cigarette expert, Dr Michelle Jongenelis

How often do we hear this response? When we asked the winner of the PHAA’s Emerging Leader Award for 2021, … More

John Safran gestures with both hands while seated on a stage in Christchurch.

This ain’t no ‘puff piece’: John Safran takes aim at Philip Morris and doesn’t miss

Jeremy Lasek – PHAA John Safran has made a career out of probing society’s fringes for satire. Now the perpetual … More

cancer, Public Health, smoking

Formula 1 Wheels Are Smoking: Tobacco Industry’s Interminable Advertising Influence in Sport

Mary-Anne Land – PHAA In 2021, the tobacco industry is projected to spend more than $100 million on Formula 1 … More

advertising, tobacco

2021 NAIDOC Week: Vital new research will help ‘Heal Country’

Public Health Association of Australia In this NAIDOC Week 2021, the Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA) embraces First Nations … More

ANZJPH, NAIDOC week, sugary drinks

Vaping and e-cigarettes are glamourised on social media, putting young people in harm’s way

Jonine Jancey, Curtin University Despite their widespread reputation as a “safer” alternative to cigarettes, e-cigarettes (also known as electronic cigarettes … More

commercial determinants of health, social media, vaping

National Preventive Health Strategy: realising the opportunity to improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health outcomes by addressing tobacco use

With the Commonwealth Government’s National Preventive Health Strategy due for finalisation in the coming months, Dr Raglan Maddox, Professor Tom … More

Indigenous smoking, National Preventive Health Strategy, Public Health, tobacco control

How unhealthy industries shape public opinions on health policy

Elly Howse Many of us working, teaching and researching in public health are aware of the impact of the commercial … More

commercial determinants of health, industry playbook, junk food, marketing, Nutrition

More Deadly News: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tobacco use continues to go down

NAIDOC Week 2020 Raglan Maddox, Katherine A. Thurber, Tom Calma, Glen Benton, Emily Banks, Raymond Lovett Smoking is a leading … More

NAIDOC, NAIDOC week

Fact or Fiction? Debunking the myths around e-cigarettes

Michelle Jongenelis, Christina Watts and Maurice Swanson   E-cigarettes have clearly made their way into Australian society. So, what’s the … More

TGA, vaping

Tobacco control was the best buy in health then, and it’s still the best buy now: an interview with Dr Michael Wooldridge

Michael Wooldridge and Paul Grogan   Image: German brother drivers Michael Schumacher on left and Ralf Schumacher walk along the … More

e-cigarettes, plain packaging, tobacco control, vaping

Smoking rates falling among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students

Christina Heris and David Thomas   Following a history of being paid or provided with rations of tobacco, smoking is … More

Indigenous smoking
Tobacco companies must be made responsible for ciagarette butts. Image of butts

Making tobacco companies responsible for our most common item of litter

Cigarette butts have long been the most common item of litter globally. About four and a half trillion cigarette butts are disposed of in the environment each year. Despite the decrease in the number of smokers in Australia, butts remain the single most common item of litter.

cigarett butts, cigarett filters, litter, tobacco

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