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Kristin Carson-Chahhoud

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Associate Research Professor, Adelaide University

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September 30, 2021

After buying health company Vectura, tobacco giant Philip Morris will profit from treating the illnesses its products create

Kristin Carson-Chahhoud, University of South Australia; Bruce Thompson, Swinburne University of Technology, and John Upham, The University of Queensland

Tobacco giant Philip Morris has acquired British company Vectura, which make puffers and nebulisers that help people with lung disease to breathe.

About 42% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (TSI) people are daily smokers, compared to 16% in the non-Indigenous population. Dave Hunt/AAP

August 21, 2014

Indigenous smoking program cuts risk widening the gap

Kristin Carson-Chahhoud, University of Adelaide

Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable disease and early death among Indigenous Australians, with smoking responsible for about one in every five deaths. Among Indigenous Australians, tobacco…

We don’t know if anti-smoking campaigns have worked, or if they’re causing more harm than good. Rusty Stewart

April 16, 2013

Anti‑smoking campaigns failing Indigenous youth

Kristin Carson-Chahhoud, University of Adelaide

How can anti-smoking campaigns be targeted more effectively at Australia’s Indigenous youth? It’s a good question, and one that, as yet, has proven difficult to answer. Almost half of all Aboriginal and…

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