Tag Archives: smoking

Liberally confused on smoking laws

July 2, 2009 – 3:36 pm

Last night, the former federal health minister Tony Abbott told a crowd at the University of Sydney that he didn’t support the NSW laws which took effect yesterday, banning smoking in cars carrying kids.
As a child, he was regularly imprisoned in a car with heavy smokers, he said. “Both my parents smoked heavily wherever they [...]

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Some reading you mustn’t miss

May 19, 2009 – 9:46 am

While the front pages and buckets of airtime are being devoured by the question of whether the wealthy should have to pay more for their private health insurance, there are other, far more important things that you could be reading about.
The 18 May edition of the Medical Journal of Australia is devoted to Indigenous health,  [...]

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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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