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A preoccupation with pharmaceutically assisted quitting ignores or dismisses the value of unassisted quitting or going “cold turkey”.
Tobacco 21 legislation could mean that many people never start smoking in the first place. Why? The older you are, the less likely you are to start smoking.
The #20 Million Memorial created earlier this month by the United States Centers for Disease Control, is an online tribute to honor the 20 million spouses, mothers, fathers, children, sisters, brothers…
Given just how well established anti-smoking campaigns in Britain now are, many of today’s smokers, and younger smokers in particular, have taken up the habit with at least some awareness of the damaging…
The American Surgeon General published the first federal government report linking smoking and ill health 50 years ago. The report also demanded that the American government take appropriate remedial action…
E-cigarettes are increasingly popular in a number of countries including the UK, while in others such as Norway and Brazil they are banned altogether. So amid all these differences in policy, what do we…
Lung cancer kills more people each year than any other cancer because it’s common and because the majority of patients only start to show symptoms after the disease is already advanced. Despite this there…
Nicotine replacement therapy (NRTs), such as patches and gums, as well as the antidepressant bupropion and another drug varenicline…
A study published in the latest edition of the journal Tobacco Control confirms what we’ve long suspected about nicotine replacement therapy (NRT): smokers don’t need to resort to these pharmaceuticals…
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Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
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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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Assistant Professor, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Senior Adviser, The Daffodil Centre, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Scientia Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Health, UNSW Sydney
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Professor in Clinical Ethics, Macquarie University
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Coral Gartner is a Friend of The Conversation.
Director, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame, The University of Queensland
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Professorial fellow, George Institute for Global Health
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Senior Lecturer in Medical Ethics and Law, St George's, University of London
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Honorary Fellow, Department of Health Sciences, University of York
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Professor in Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, University of Liverpool
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Bruce and John Usher Professor of Public Health, The University of Edinburgh
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Research Director, ScotCen Social Research, ScotCen Social Research
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Reader in Social Sciences and Health, Cardiff University
