According to the estimates by the World Health Organisation, Africa is one of two regions -- along with the Eastern Mediterranean region -- where smoking rates are on the rise.
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Coronavirus has necessitated a global public health response. But what does 'public health' actually mean? Three key examples give us an idea of what public health looks like in action.
Here are some immediate actions need to be made to avoid the unprecedented youth vaping epidemic in Indonesia.
Rapidly growing metropolises like Beijing, Jakarta and Ho Chi Minh City are struggling to protect residents against tobacco. Life-saving policies in rich countries may be partially to blame.
Designing anti-smoking campaign messages based on tried and tested health communication theories will make the messages more powerful.
The National Tobacco Control Act gives the tobacco industry inside access to the decision making process.
E-cigarette usage among teens has surged. A tobacco control expert explains how flavors may be contributing.
The biggest problem in the Indonesian universal healthcare program is that members' contribution is less than the spending to pay claims for hospitals and other health services.
The only quitting tool most Australian prisoners have access to is nicotine lozenges. These are being mixed with tea leaves to create a smokable product known as "teabacco".
South Africa's proposed new tobacco laws will tighten the grip on how cigarettes and other tobacco products are sold, marketed and regulated in the country.
The journey to the ads that cigarettes companies started running Nov. 26, 2017 about the dangers of smoking and their bad behavior started 64 years ago .
Philip Morris has applied to the FDA to market a product that it says is safer than a cigarette, but its own data show that is not true.
Many smokers still think filters make cigarettes safer. But they actually make them more harmful, and the tobacco industry has known about this for a long time.
About one in 10 Americans say they sometimes smoke, often in social settings. Many think it's not so bad for them. A new study has some scary findings, when it comes to matters of the heart.
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.
Fewer young people are smoking, but overall smoking levels remain level. What's stopping smoking levels in all ages dropping further?
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has reportedly backed Australia’s laws on plain tobacco packaging implemented from December 2012. The apparent decision marks the end of the last of three cases brought…
Tobacco tax increases in Australia that will see a packet of cigarettes costing A$40 may discourage smoking, but will end up having unintended consequences for poorer smokers, new research shows.
Cigarette smoking kills about 480,000 Americans annually and costs nearly US$170 billion in health care each year. Is it time we considered financial incentives to help people quit?
While many groups of people stand to lose health insurance benefits under the new health care bill, smokers would be particularly harmed. Here's how cutbacks in cessation programs could harm them.
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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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Sr Research Fellow/ Sr Lecturer, University of Sydney
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Sydney-based researcher affiliated with the Global Tobacco Control Research Programme at Simon Fraser University, Canada, Macquarie University
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Adjunct researcher, University of Tasmania
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Professor and Director, Centre for Youth Substance Abuse Research, The University of Queensland
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Senior Researcher in Law, University of Gothenburg
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Emeritus Professor, University of Tasmania
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Specialist Scientist, Alcohol Tobacco and Other Drug Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council
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Professor and Associate Dean (Research), University of Melbourne
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Professor, University of Melbourne
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Professorial Research Fellow. School of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Adelaide
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Professor of Public Health, University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Flinders University
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Professor of Health Policy, Curtin University
