Roll-your-own tobacco contains additives to stop it from drying out. So, it’s hardly a “natural” or “healthier” alternative to factory made cigarettes.
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When is the upcoming ban on early evening TV sports betting ads not a real ban? When it’s a partial ban that ignores how real people watch sport.
If you want to know how to spin alternative facts, just ask the PR gurus who kept the world smoking.
An “endgame” approach focuses on ending the tobacco pandemic, and foresees a tobacco-free future.
The arbitrary treatment of comapnies like Philip Morris is unsettling and does not engender confidence – two basic ingredients required in trade and investment.
Since the 19th century academic librarians have helped students navigate the complex world of information. In today’s unpredictable information environment, how might they rethink their role?
Classing e-cigarettes as quit smoking aids could help rebrand the tobacco industry as a legitimate player in health policy. Here’s why we should be concerned.
Thanks to voters ignoring Big Tobacco, California may be the first smoke free society. Here’s how it happened.
The decision to tax sugary drinks in South Africa faces furious industry opposition, but global experience shows industry cannot be trusted to put public health before profits.
Big tobacco companies have found a way around plain packaging with clever marketing techniques that undermine Australian regulations.
California, the nation’s single largest market for cigarettes, has one of the lowest taxes on them. A proposal to raise the tax by US$2 a pack could signal a sea change.
In 2012, in the early days of the rise of e-cigarettes, Kingsley Wheaton, Director of Corporate and Regulatory Affairs at British American Tobacco, said “Our core business is, and will remain in, tobacco…
Hidden links between tobacco companies and tobacco control opponents may be hindering plain packaging legislation around the world.
California has one of the nation’s lowest cigarette taxes, due in large part to a powerful tobacco lobby. The power could shift this fall, if a voters agree to raise taxes by $2 a pack.
An era of prohibition may soon be over for marijuana, and powerful players are watching. A legal expert explains how smaller, local producers can keep their pot in the game.
This week The Guardian published a long-form profile by veteran journalist Gideon Haigh of Dr Bronwyn King. I wrote a column about her last October when her efforts to persuade the Australian superannuation…
Over the past decade, every researcher’s email inbox has been crammed daily with junk from what have come to be known as predatory journals and conferences. Last week I had 21 offers to send my non-existent…
Research shows how tobacco companies are feeling the effects of smoking bans across the world.
Big Tobacco relies on tactics of deceit, delay and frustration which it has developed and refined over half a century.
Last week, I wrote about factoid-driven myths that just refuse to die. In less than a week, the piece has had more than 1.184 million readers. There’s plainly a big appetite for smoking myth busting, so…
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Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
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Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
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Senior Research Fellow, University of Bath
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity, University of New South Wales, UNSW Sydney
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Research Fellow, Tobacco Control Research Group, University of Bath
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Professor in Intellectual Property and Innovation Law, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Health Policy, Curtin University
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Political Scientist, University of Bath
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Associate Professor, School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Emeritus Professor, The National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Public Health, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Public Health/Director, Tobacco Control Research Group, University of Bath
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Professor and Dean, School of Public Health, Georgia State University
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