Tag Archives: tobacco control

A bold prediction about Indigenous smoking

November 4, 2009 – 2:16 pm

As the previous Croakey post points out, the news about Indigenous smoking rates may be more encouraging than we’ve previously understood.
Dr Mark Ragg, a health and communications expert, believes the history of smoking among people with mental illness holds some lessons for those working to tackle Indigenous smoking, and also gives cause for optimisim.
He writes:
“David [...]

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And now for some good news on Indigenous health

November 4, 2009 – 2:07 pm

We are so inundated by bad news about Indigenous health that it’s easy to be overwhelmed by doom and gloom. But when it comes to smoking – a major cause of sickness and premature death – the news may be more encouraging than we’ve previously thought.
Dr David Thomas, a senior research fellow at the Menzies [...]

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New media +Indigenous musicians = funky tobacco control

October 2, 2009 – 11:24 am

These clips are worth checking out – part of the funkiest anti-smoking campaign I’ve seen in a while.
This one is called Cough N Rap
And, I don’t know about you, but this one just makes me want to dance… (if it doesn’t stop people smoking, it might at least get them moving…)
The clips (and there are [...]

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Tobacco developments in the US

September 2, 2009 – 4:14 pm

As Australia considers introducing tougher controls on tobacco, it is timely to be reminded that there is much work yet to be done in other countries, as Lesley Russell observed during her recent travels. She writes:
“On a recent trip to New Mexico, I was astounded to see large  billboards advertising cheap cigarettes at smoke shops [...]

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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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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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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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