Lockdown should be nuanced to the South African context of overcrowded accommodation and high levels of domestic violence. Permitting cigarette purchases and exercise might assist.
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Vaping devices cause deadly lung toxicity. Their marketing to children must be banned.
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.
The Chinese National Tobacco Corporation is expanding its international markets through subsidiaries. Is the world ready for tobacco companies sponsoring or supporting schools?
They’re effective – and popular.
As Zambia’s case study shows, the benefits of boosting investment in cigarette manufacturing run the risk of being wiped out by the health and economic development costs of increasing smoking.
Designing anti-smoking campaign messages based on tried and tested health communication theories will make the messages more powerful.
A recent Cochrane review came to a surprising conclusion.
Tobacco companies are enlisting the help of social media influencers to promote traditional cigarettes and their brands to young people.
The history of smuggling across the Irish border.
For those who don’t smoke cigarettes, the dangers may seem distant. Yet smoking still kills millions each year. A new study suggests that e-cigarettes might curb this public health tragedy.
Research shows that a higher excise tax rate on tobacco would result in a decrease in the number of people who smoke.
There are other things which cause air pollution – cars, for example – which will have a much bigger impact.
Tobacco companies stalled introducing plain packs, explored loopholes in the law and didn’t follow through with suggested price cuts.
Economic tactics play a big part in a habit that’s hard to break.
Lung Cancer Awareness Month starts today, but observance of it often slips under the radar, in part because there are so few survivors. Here’s how the biggest cancer killer could actually be halted.
The Canadian government is currently drafting regulations on plain packaging for cigarettes. Tobacco companies are trying to weaken the regulations via lobbying and misleading PR campaigns.
How industry-funded data on tobacco smuggling exaggerates the scale of the problem.
A chemist assesses the potential risks of electronic cigarettes.
Hundreds of lawsuits against Monsanto contend that its popular Roundup weed killer gave users cancer. But proving this kind of connection is challenging in both science and law.
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Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Health Promotion and Policy, UMass Amherst
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Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
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Director, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame and ARC Future Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity, University of New South Wales, UNSW
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Research Fellow, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Intellectual Property Law, City St George's, University of London
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Associate Professor, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford
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Adjunct researcher, University of Tasmania
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
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Assistant Professor of Public Health and Law, The Ohio State University
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Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Business Economics, University of Bath
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Professor in Residence of Global Health, Marquette University
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Professor of Economics and Director of the Research Unit on the Economics of Excisable Products, University of Cape Town
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Health, University of Bath