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Zimbabwe like many other post colonial governments across the globe continues to struggle to attain equitable land reform.
The effects of long-term tobacco smoking on our mental faculties such as memory and concentration are only now becoming known.
Big tobacco companies have found a way around plain packaging with clever marketing techniques that undermine Australian regulations.
In 2012, in the early days of the rise of e-cigarettes, Kingsley Wheaton, Director of Corporate and Regulatory Affairs at British American Tobacco, said “Our core business is, and will remain in, tobacco…
California has one of the nation’s lowest cigarette taxes, due in large part to a powerful tobacco lobby. The power could shift this fall, if a voters agree to raise taxes by $2 a pack.
An era of prohibition may soon be over for marijuana, and powerful players are watching. A legal expert explains how smaller, local producers can keep their pot in the game.
This week The Guardian published a long-form profile by veteran journalist Gideon Haigh of Dr Bronwyn King. I wrote a column about her last October when her efforts to persuade the Australian superannuation…
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.
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…
Research shows how tobacco companies are feeling the effects of smoking bans across the world.
Holiday making accounts for almost a tenth of the British economy. Here’s how it might be impacted by a vote to leave the EU.
Big Tobacco relies on tactics of deceit, delay and frustration which it has developed and refined over half a century.
The Tasmanian government is considering whether to raise the age at which people can legally purchase tobacco products from 18 to 21 or possibly even 25. California is also moving to increase the legal…
Surely, no bookmaker will take bets on what the principal recommendation of Leyonhjelm’s wasteful exercise will be: that tobacco tax should fall.
Federal officials could give the FDA authority to develop e-cigarette regulations. But developing regulations that maximize their benefits and minimize their risks is harder than it looks.
Picture a scientist employed by a pharmaceutical company publishing research results that were important bricks in a wall of evidence that could massively benefit their employer down the track. Imagine…
It is three years since Australia fully implemented its historic tobacco plain packaging law. From December 1, 2012, all tobacco products have been required to be sold in the mandated standardised packs…
Efforts to break our financial addiction to the energy sector might find useful lessons in the slow decline of tobacco.
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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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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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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity, University of New South Wales, UNSW
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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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Professor of Public Health, The University of Melbourne
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Research Officer, Research Unit on the Economics of Excisable Products, University of Cape Town
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Associate Professor in Criminology, Deakin University
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Associate Professor of Health Management and Policy and Global Public Health, University of Michigan
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Professor of Public Health/Director, Tobacco Control Research Group, University of Bath
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Professor of Health Policy, Curtin University
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Honorary Fellow, Department of Health Sciences, University of York
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Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Business Economics, University of Bath
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Lecturer & Senior Researcher in Evidence-Based Healthcare, University of Oxford