A lawyer who worked on a class action against tobacco makers says the Meta deal mirrors the playbook of Big Tobacco – and will cost only a few days’ revenue.
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Research suggests that the multitude of products is confusing.
The critical debate of research is welcome and necessary. But the incidents documented in our study go far beyond this.
Treating both sides equally can seriously distort the facts, if the evidence is weighted to one side. Looking at the US election, climate change denial and more, a journalism expert explains why.
Big tech doesn’t just fund research into itself – it also controls researchers’ access to data. Even big tobacco didn’t have this kind of power.
Corporations have an incentive to make profits – even if their products hurt or even kill people. Here’s how to stop history repeating.
Financial links between corporations and health research invariably lead to conflicts of interest.
Research shows many smokers regret starting the habit. So why are we repealing the law that would have made smoked tobacco products less addictive?
About half of people involved in tobacco lobbying held positions in Australian governments before or after working for the tobacco industry.
The public bears the suffering and costs of the global epidemic of noncommunicable diseases, and the rapidly accelerating climate emergency.
It’s often said if cigarettes were invented tomorrow, and we knew now what we didn’t know then, they would be banned outright. But vaping is showing us we’re repeating the same mistakes.
Big Tobacco’s efforts to rehabilitate its image should not go unchallenged because the tobacco industry’s goal remains advancing corporate profit at the expense of public health.
South Africa was once a leader in tobacco use control but has since fallen behind, and smoking prevalence has steadily increased.
In places around the world that lack restrictions to combat the problem, tobacco companies are using marketing strategies aimed at children, like displaying tobacco products at kids’ eye level.
Ultra-processed foods meet the same criteria for addictiveness that tobacco products do – and they’ve even been marketed in similar ways.
Product placement in music videos totals $15 million to $20 million a year and is rising. E-cigarette makers are discovering it’s a great way to lure young adults into vaping.
Australia has won a decisive victory against tobacco interests using trade deals to challenge plain packaging laws. But don’t expect that to deter similar threats against other nations.
The World Trade Organisation has thrown out the final legal challenge to Australia’s tobacco plain packaging laws. Now countries across the world can implement this game-changing public health policy.
Tobacco has imposed a terrible toll on global health, but it could be used to produce the molecules we need to fight COVID-19.
Instagram remains a key marketing platform for tobacco companies.
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Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, University of Bath
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Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity, University of New South Wales, UNSW
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Research Fellow, Tobacco Control Research Group, University of Bath
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Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
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Political Scientist, University of Bath
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Professor in Intellectual Property and Innovation Law, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Health Policy, Curtin University
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Professor and Programme Director, SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - PRICELESS SA (Priority Cost Effective Lessons in Systems Strengthening South Africa), University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Public Health, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Politics, The University of Melbourne
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Professor and Dean, School of Public Health, Georgia State University
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Assistant Professor, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Professor in Criminology, University of Bristol