Category Archives: tobacco control

Why convenience stores are pulling our legs: Prof Simon Chapman

May 25, 2009 – 4:40 pm

Simon Chapman, Professor of Public Health at the University of Sydney, unpicks claims that shopkeepers are being hit hard by new tobacco display regulations. He writes:
The Sun-Herald this weekend reported on a Deloitte  study commissioned by  the Australian Association of Convenience Stores, which claimed that the NSW’s government’s 2008 decision to require all retail displays [...]

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The federal budget and health: a Croakey survey

May 6, 2009 – 11:58 am

In the lead-up to the budget, Croakey has asked an assortment of public health and health policy types about their wishes and expectations.
Michael Moore, CEO, Public Health Association of Australia
In the initial budget for this government was a huge effort on hospital waiting lists and $$$ through to the States for improvements at the tertiary [...]

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Exposing some sickening relationships

December 11, 2008 – 12:47 pm

The Center for Media and Democracy in the US has documented some sickening relationships between the industries that cause and treat diseases:
• In 2006, the American Heart Association teamed up with a pharmacy chain, Rite Aid Drug Stores, to promote a “Go Red for Women” campaign to increase awareness of heart disease in women – [...]

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Should we regulate smoking in movies?

November 25, 2008 – 1:11 pm

Simon Chapman, professor of public health at the University of Sydney, writes:
There is an international push in tobacco control circles for regulation of the film industry in response to growing evidence on the association of smoking scenes in movies with teenage smoking uptake.
Thailand now pixilates smoking and there has been big momentum in both India [...]

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