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Category: Tobacco

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, 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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