Tag: smoking
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Playing the long game: 40 years of Quit
Thomas Kehoe Australia is lauded for its leadership in the global fight against tobacco. This is exemplified in passing new tobacco control interventions to tackle tobacco induced disease, which began on 1 July. Measures include graphic health warnings on cigarette packs and sticks, and a ban on menthol and other…
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First phase of measures against vaping to combat growing harms
Associate Professor Michelle Jongenelis Disposable vapes are the brightly coloured plastic devices you’re seeing kids and young adults puffing on pretty much everywhere. They are also the devices you’re accidentally stepping on when walking along the footpath. While we were busy figuring out how to survive COVID-19, disposable vapes hit…
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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 provocateur takes on the biggest cigarette company on the planet. Three years ago, tobacco giant Philip Morris shocked the world when it announced it was moving away from cigarettes and…
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The future for preventive health in Australia
In 2018, with our focus turned to the 2019 federal election, the Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA) launched the “Top Ten successes in Public Health in the past 20 years”. Even before seeing our list, most audiences can pick five to seven of the ten items on it, so…