Many fork out considerable money in pharmaceuticals along the way in the attempt to shake their smoking.
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A collaboration of Australia’s leading scientists, clinicians and health organisations announce ten priority policy actions needed for Australia to reach its health targets by the year 2025.
The effects of long-term tobacco smoking on our mental faculties such as memory and concentration are only now becoming known.
An Australian study of 204,953 people also confirmed the two in three death rate from smoking.
Developing brand new treatments and cures isn’t the only way to achieve a major reduction in cancer deaths worldwide.
To discourage smoking, insurance companies charge higher premiums for smokers. This is having an unexpected consequence: rather than quit smoking, poor people are quitting insurance.
Almost half of pregnant Indigenous women smoke compared to one in eight in the non-Indigenous population. This means 7,000-9,000 Indigenous babies every year are exposed to smoking in the womb.
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…
The Uruguayan government’s victory over Philip Morris should embolden other countries to introduce stronger tobacco-control policies.
Smoking rates among the poor are almost double the rates for middle-class Americans. Yet we are not providing poor people with the medical help they need to stop. We will pay billions for that later.
The New Zealand government has decided to reorient its priorities in tobacco control. It has announced it will be pulling 73% of its previous funding support for tobacco control advocacy. The only money…
Almost three in four Australian children consume too much sugar, 91.5% of young people don’t get enough exercise, and we’re among the most obese people in the world.
If South African consumers were educated on how to read and understand the information on food labels, they may be more willing and capable of making healthier food choices.
Smoking causes 96,000 premature deaths a year in the UK. The fact that it protects against Parkinson’s disease is not a reason to take up the habit.
New evidence gets to the heart of their cardio-vascular impact.
The lung is like an upside-down tree where the wind pipe is the trunk and the bronchi are the branches. Chronic lower respiratory diseases affect these branches.
Research shows how tobacco companies are feeling the effects of smoking bans across the world.
Smoking kills. But the shocking warnings on plain packaging might not be the best way to get smokers to kick their habit.
Hypertension is one of the leading causes of cardiovascular diseases such as stroke, heart attacks, heart failure and peripheral vascular disease. And in the developing world, it is on the rise.
Non-communicable diseases are skyrocketing in Kenya and Uganda. Though the countries’ governments have a responsibility to tackle the problem, individuals need to take action too.
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Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
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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
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Assistant Professor of Health Promotion and Policy, UMass Amherst
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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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Research Officer, Research Unit on the Economics of Excisable Products, University of Cape Town
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Adjunct researcher, University of Tasmania
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Research Fellow at The Daffodil Centre, University of Sydney
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Professor in Public Health, University of Otago
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Associate Professor in Public Health, University of Otago
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Professor of Public Health, University of Otago
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Reader in Social Sciences and Health, Cardiff University
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Associate Professor, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford
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Professor of Public Health/Director, Tobacco Control Research Group, University of Bath
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Honorary Fellow, Department of Health Sciences, University of York