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Tag: tobacco

Single cigarette, standing vertically on a table

No butts about stopping tobacco damaging the environment

On this World No Tobacco Day, we remember another victim of the tobacco industry – the environment Dr Michelle I … More

e-cigarettes, ecology and environment, Public Health, tobacco
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, Public Health, sugar tax, taxation, tobacco
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

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
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, Public Health, tobacco

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