Please download, read and share this report compiling articles by Marie McInerney and other coverage of the recent Oceania Tobacco Control Conference in Hobart: #OTCC17_ConferenceReport. Thi... Read more
This fortnight’s Health Wrap, compiled by The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre Senior Communications Officer Helen Signy, takes a look at how the media covered three of the top publi... Read more
Following 11 years of delays, major tobacco companies this week began airing advertisements across all media in the United States on the lethal nature of tobacco, finally complying with a co... Read more
Marie McInerney writes: Are electronic cigarettes – or e-cigarettes as they’re known – the silver bullet that will finally cut down smoking rates in the most “hard to reach... Read more
Marie McInerney reports: Tobacco companies are trying to influence health policies by “infiltrating” non-health policy areas, such as tax, customs and law enforcement, in Austral... Read more
Marie McInerney writes: Traditional healers are at the front-line of efforts by Navajo researchers to prevent rising rates of smokers in American Indian communities while general population... Read more
A keynote speaker at a recent tobacco control conference warned that clinicians and health services who think it is too much to ask people with mental health and drug and alcohol issues to g... Read more
Marie McInerney writes: Clinicians and health services who think it is too much to ask people with mental health and drug and alcohol issues to give up smoking are “killing them with k... Read more
Marie McInerney writes: A leading Aboriginal health researcher has called for research and reporting on Indigenous smoking rates to be reframed, to reflect the good news that is emerging and... Read more
Marie McInerney writes: Australia has been urged to implement a minimum tobacco price to stop manufacturers targeting lower income smokers, and to introduce strong retail licensing to cut th... Read more
