Dropping #TobaccoTax will not reduce #IllicitTrade. Empowering States and Territories to swiftly shut down retailers engaging in illicit tobacco trade is likely to be far more effective. @coralgartner.bsky.social @chenealpuljevic.bsky.social theconversation.com/queensland-l...

Illicit tobacco is a key priority for Fresh. Illegal products undermine price, increase access for children, & keep smokers dependent. With 20+ years’ experience, we work with enforcement partners to address both supply & demand. Raising price and reducing illegal tobacco - Fresh Balance

Article 5.3 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control protects public health policy from tobacco industry influence. 🚭 However, this doesn't stop the industry pushing their arguments to lobby against tobacco control measures - particularly the Tobacco and Vapes Bill.

Social science grads: do a PhD with me on illicit tobacco. Email me with any questions! Deadline 1st May www.aston.ac.uk/postgraduate... #AcademicSky #PhDSky @academic-chatter.bsky.social PhD position

Illicit tobacco remains a key focus for Fresh. All tobacco kills but illicit helps children get hooked and smokers trapped in addiction. With 2 decades of experience, our work addresses both the supply and demand for illicit, supporting enforcement partners. www.fresh-balance.co.uk/fresh/what-w...

#AcademicJobs #EduSky #research #PhD @robbranston.bsky.social @jamiebrown.bsky.social @drsarahejackson.bsky.social @addictionuea.bsky.social @sharoncox.bsky.social @lionshahab.bsky.social

Taxation is one of the most effective ways to control tobacco and nicotine use. In the EU #tobaccotax policy is governed by the Tobacco Tax Directive #TTD. Dr. Ángel López-Nicolás, @robbranston.bsky.social and Dr. Hana Ross evaluate leaked proposals to reform the directive. doi.org/10.1016/j.dr...

@partnershipfree.bsky.social have published a set of 19 infographics on the projected impacts of revising the EU Tobacco Tax Directive #TTD. These projected impacts are based on modelling by Dr. Zaineb Sheikh from TCRG and Prof. Dr. Ángel López Nicolás. www.smokefreepartnership.eu/news/country...

Do you have a keen interest in tobacco control and illicit tobacco? Apply for a funded PhD with me - closing date 1st May www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Tax Justice Network continues to do amazing work exposing the incompetence, decay, and worse, in our tax system.

Only 3 weeks until #EarthRaise begins 🌍 From #EarthDay (22–29 April), donations to #EarthRaise environmental charities can be doubled thanks to our Champion funders - helping restore rivers, protect wildlife and replant forests. Mark your calendars and double your difference.

Latest issue 3(2) now out! Read, download, share with your colleagues - and please do make sure they all know that JCPH is THE diamond #OA community owned-critical #publicheatlh journal. journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...

SRNT-E Conference this year will be held at Sorbonne University, Paris 21St-23rd Sept. Abstract submission is currently open, deadline 16th April 23:59 CET For more info and to submit an abstract see our website srnt-e.org Hope to see you there!

Brilliant and completely accurate

"Instead of acknowledging migrants as the survivors of climate collapse – fuelled by the global north, which is responsible for 92% of excess global emissions – these political parties emphasise 'overpopulation' and 'opportunism' in the global south."

We urge David Lammy to immediately authorise a senior official to meet with the legal representatives of Heba Muraisi & Kamran Ahmed - both on prolonged hunger strike & at extreme risk of death. Their representatives have repeatedly requested this meeting & it is now critical to prevent a tragedy.

When all students are required to use #GenAI for every assignment, their practice can be more rigorous, transparent and deeply reflective. Here, Tiatemsu Longkumer explains a rubric: https://ow.ly/Apmu50XRXw1#GenAI#HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky

1 day left to have your Christmas donations matched! I chose DEC's Middle East appeal, the Refugee Council, NEPACS supporting kids to visit parents in prison, Parkinson's Nurses in memory of my mum, and Youth Talk mental health 💕

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However, this book 📕 gives case studies & explains how health #inequalities have previously been reduced through policies,it’s not impossible. We must believe that things can get better! Available to read 🆓 online, but I am 40 so I am excited to be reading a real #book 📚😄 @profbambra.bsky.social

✨New #book day 📚✨ When I proposed my #PhD on #inequalities, some were dismissive, saying it is an insurmountable problem…. And after reading the opening page (that in New Orleans there is a 2️⃣5️⃣ YEAR gap in life expectancy between richest & poorest areas 🏚️💰) I can see why people feel that way….1/2

Frantically learning all the wrong lessons. People who want Reform policies will vote Reform. People who want Labour policies ... well, perhaps they'll just have to vote Green. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The Israeli authorities have illegally banned all aid and goods into Gaza for two months. This constitutes a genocidal act, a blatant form of unlawful collective punishment, and the war crime of using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare.

The BBC’s motto is ‘Nation Shall Speak Peace Unto Nation’ - not any more apparently as BBC blocks access from abroad www.classical-music.uk/opinion/arti...

SUVs kill - ban them now www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New books woo! 4 for £7 at the bottom, the others all new from Collected Durham 💕

According to the UK government’s own analysis, 250,000 people will be pushed into poverty by the latest social security cuts. Call on the PM to stop the cuts: www.amnesty.org.uk/actions/stop...

‘The End’ in cinemas from tomorrow – follow the blind optimism of a wealthy family sheltered in their palatial bunker as climate collapse finally comes knocking . . . @thinkfilmimpact.bsky.social mubi.com/theend

@newcastleunited.com you've really messed up with half the fans outside at kickoff after queuing 45mn

As new school year starts in Afghanistan, almost 400,000 more girls deprived of their right to education, bringing total to 2.2 million “The consequences for these girls - and for Afghanistan - are catastrophic.” www.unicef.org/press-releas...

127,350 measles cases were reported in the European Region in 2024, double the number of cases reported for 2023 and the highest number since 1997, according to an analysis by WHO and UNICEF. www.unicef.org/press-releas...

Can #ecigs / #vapes help you to #quitsmoking? Are they safe for quitting? See our plain language briefing w/ Feb 2025 search update & findings from Jan 2024 living Cochrane review @cochranetag.bsky.social @oxfordtag.bsky.social Thanks to @cancerresearchuk.org www.cebm.ox.ac.uk/research/ele...

Like 1968 and 1989, 2025 could be year for the history books - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Together we can help stop this. Sign the petition: www.amnesty.org.uk/actions/ban-...

FA Cup 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Portsmouth 0-2 Sunderland Jenna Dear & Emily Scarr scored the goals to send Sunderland into the #WFACup quarter finals! Sunderland are now the lowest ranked side left in the competition and the only none #WSL side left!

🧡 On Saturday, supporters of Just Stop Oil and @defendourjuries.bsky.social held a vigil in Cambridge for GP Dr Patrick Hart, celebrating his birthday on the 5th Feb. 🔥 This April we'll be sitting in the road to Reclaim Parliament. Join us: juststopoil.org/spring-2025 Photo credit: Derek Langley

🏭 Come celebrate the career of Tim Strangleman, DePOT co-investigator and author of many books on the sociology of deindustrialization. Tickets available here:

Join me in complaining to OFCOM about GB News homophobia 🌈

If you put it, privately, to GB News that they were trying to import the racism and hatred of Trumpism into the UK I doubt they'd disagree. We need to stop them - now. action.goodlawproject.org/ofcom-stop-g...

www.newstatesman.com/environment/... "As politics turns against net zero, we need to mobilise a genuine mass movement against ecological catastrophe." good piece by Caroline Lucas and Rupert Read

Coventry University is in crisis: 👉 300 jobs at risk 👉 Severe cuts across faculties Yet the vice-chancellor: 👉 Received an £80,768 bonus on £300k+ salary 👉 Rewarded with position at the DBT Sign the petition, urge the govt to rescind his role 👇 bit.ly/4aL7iAN

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Butler predicted MAGA in 1993, also a US/Canada war...

V. useful new and up-to-date handbook on the link between inequalities and crime edited by @stephenfarrall.bsky.social and @susanmcvie.bsky.social and a lot of good people in between! www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/han...

Oxycontin settlement: drug that generated US opioid crisis and billions of dollars for the Sackler family www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My lovely @astonpress.bsky.social MPH students have graduated! I'm so proud of you all 💕

The University of Leeds has become the first Russell Group university to officially announce that it is quitting Elon Musk’s social media site X. It will, however, be alive and well on Bluesky. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...