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Lung cancer bad attitude impacts outcomes
A new report from Lung Foundation Australia shows that Australians’ negative attitudes to and stereotypes about lung cancer patients is impacting diagnosis and access to treatment. Lung cancer has a …
Obesity second only to smoking in premature death risk
A study of 3.9 million adults published today in The Lancet has confirmed that being overweight or obese is associated with an increased risk of premature death and is second …
Another country takes up plain tobacco packaging
Uruguay is the latest country to institute tobacco control measures such as plain packs, after it won an international landmark legal battle against big tobacco company Philip Morris. Graphic warnings …
ACCC takes e-cigarette retailers to court
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has commenced separate proceedings in the Federal Court against two e-cigarette online retailers alleging that they made false or misleading representations and engaged in …
Does plain packaging encourage crime?
International stakeholders are focusing keenly on Australia’s experience with plain packaging for tobacco products… including the IRA, one international body claims. Jane McCredie writes in MJA InSight this week that …
Plain packaging works: Heart Foundation
Continued successful court rulings throughout the world strengthens Australia’s landmark decision to introduce plain packaging of cigarette products. On World No Tobacco Day today, the World Health Organization is calling …
Commonwealth a winner, NT gets ‘dirty ashtray’ award
The AMA/ACOSH National Tobacco Scoreboard Award this year has gone to the Commonwealth Government, for making the most progress on combating smoking over the last 12 months. Outgoing AMA president …
Quit smoking and pharmacy
Pharmacy has a vital role to play in the education and support of patients seeking to quit smoking, writes Isaac Bober Tobacco use is considered to be one of the …
Barriers to e-cigarettes in smoking cessation
Australia needs to reconsider the ways it manages reducing smoking rates, including allowing some e-cigarettes to be sold legally, says an expert on substance abuse – but another expert has …
Tobacco price rise helps, not harms, the poor
Instead of a regressive policy which targets the poor, the ongoing rise in tobacco excise benefits the poor more than it does the rich, say experts. Public health physician Dr …
Tobacco tax increase confirmed
Around 320,000 adult Australian smokers are likely to quit and 40,000 teenagers deterred from taking up smoking as a result of expected tobacco tax increases in the 2016-17 federal budget, …
Vaping could be lesser of two evils
Electronic cigarettes have the potential to contribute to reducing death and disability caused by Britain’s biggest killer, say experts in The BMJ. Reviewing a new report by the Royal College …