Good, policy-relevant paper.

Public health in Germany: structures, dynamics, and ways forward www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... - absence of a strong central institution for PH - inadequate funding for disease prevention and health promotion - little interoperability in data collection

Appalling.

Not good news for ageing travellers

Tobacco giant JTI is plastering Westminster with ads about illicit trade, in a clear attempt to influence parliamentarians due to debate the Tobacco and Vapes Bill. 🚭But the best way to cut illegal tobacco is to cut smoking. That’s what JTI is really worried about. 👉 ash.org.uk/media-centre...

Maybe a touch of formal education would have taught the Times how to spell alma mater?

It should be blindingly obvious that alcohol marketing (like gambling and tobacco) aims to increase sales and target young people, but it seems we keep needing to show it again, and again and again. And again.

Leaving aside optics of attending at any time an event hosted by industry that does so much to create misery, transferring billions from the poor and desperate to billionaires, Rachel Reeves’ decision to do so ahead of a budget seriously questions her judgment www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Excellent!

Big #Tobacco up to its usual serpentine stuff designed to get steps ahead of government regulation on nicotine (the sina qua non of "loyal customers") with synthetic nicotine analogs possible more addictive than straight up #nicotine www.ginn.global/6-methyl-nic...

"Athletic nicotine" - what next?!

Gobsmacking when this advice had such huge influence "Neither the Associate Minister nor the Minister's office staff had been able to confirm who had written tobacco policy notes that were held in the Minister's office in paper form and used for ministerial purposes," www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

This is not a good look for Time magazine, "in paid partnership" with Big Tobacco

Crossbench MPs and a transparency group have criticised the gambling lobby’s sponsorship of federal parliament’s sports club, alleging it paid to secure access to decision-makers and entrench wagering’s close association with sport.

Critics of the tobacco excise argue the tax has stopped working to further reduce smoking rates and should be lowered. 👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/could-m...

Remarkable. Credit to Kate Chaney and David Pocock for pursuing these issues.

SO true......

Aotearoa NZ has not changed on-pack warning labels since these were introduced in 2018. Our latest Conversation op-ed examines how this important policy could be reinvigorated : theconversation.com/graphic-warn...

Good paper – further confirmation of need for strong policy measures to protect children and young people from predatory industries.

Chatting with @domknight.bsky.social tomorrow 7.10am on NSW Gvt at last unleashing the hounds of hell on the stain of in-your-face chaep illegal tobacco/vape shops www.nsw.gov.au/ministerial-....

Excellent comments

📉 New Notre Dame University Australia research published today found 117 dedicated vape shops in WA have closed since new national vape laws came into place, but many Perth convenience stores are still breaking the rules. 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.an... #PublicHealth

Latest news: Global cigarette market: trends in sales, pricing and estimates of price elasticity across WHO regions (2008–2022). https://bit.ly/4oV0RS8

In UK 7 times more 16-17 year olds smoking than if there had been no e-cigs Jessica Mongilio and colleagues just published an innovative approach to assessing the association between e-cigarette use and smoking, the so-called gateway effect, that provides insights between the link between e-cigs…

Good, careful review justifying calls for action on alcohol marketing – and also noting that in some areas such as sport and sporting events, gambling exposure and advertising were even more common than alcohol. As so often, predatory industries use similar strategies.

Yet more concerns about vaping harms

ICYMI! Catch up on some of the excellent research at Health Promotion International 💡   doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daaf095   doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daaf093   doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daaf081   doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daaf094   doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daaf107

The #tobacco industry is trying to persuade the govt to freeze or reverse taxation on tobacco products, claiming this reduces the illicit market. Malcolm Baalman explains how maintaining our national policy would prevent young people from developing a #NicotineAddiction. More: shorturl.at/AejPG

Well done. Looking forward to the next ten years.

Useful summary from ASH UK of how UK has dramatically reduced illicit trade in tobacco by LAW ENFORCEMENT, not dropping tax. And how highest illicit markets are in low income, low taxing nations. Lessons for Australia ash.org.uk/media-centre... @markbutlermp.bsky.social

Well played AMA. 👏👏👏

Latest News: This special communication provides recommendations for policymakers on how to regulate electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) without violating international trade rules. https://bit.ly/4mSlE7l

From smuggling to spin: how tobacco giants hijacked the illicit trade debate ash.org.uk/media-centre... @ashorguk.bsky.social @ash.org @whofctc.bsky.social

Powerful Parliamentary Roundtable on gambling reform yesterday. Huge thanks to @davidpocock.bsky.social and @katechaneymp.bsky.social for organising, the lived experience experts for sharing such impactful testimony, and Usman Khawaja for his support.

Get the facts on illicit tobacco and debunk industry myths in our new blog post. ash.org.uk/media-centre...

Latest News: Nicotine pouch brands: the new route of auto racing sponsorships worldwide. https://bit.ly/3V5Gjsq

In the UK, in three nationally representative birth cohorts, adolescent cigarette smoking declined from 33% in 1974 to 25% in 1986 and to 12% in 2018.Contemporary youth who used e-cigarettes had a similar probability of smoking cigarettes to youth observed five decades earlier.https://bit.ly/4lDFCSe

Excellent comments from Usman Khawaja. Time for the government to follow the Murphy Committee recommendations on phasing out gambling advertising, not the gambling industry’s interests.

Good summary

One of the greats. A sad loss indeed, but also an exceptional achiever who made enormous contributions to public health here and elsewhere and a thoroughly nice and decent person.

Excellent. Can't imagine any Mikes to whom this might refer.

It’s an enormous privilege to chair the @bma.org.uk Giving committee. There are so many amazing organisations doing wonderful things and I’m so pleased that can offer some support. Read about some of them 👇 www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...

Lobbying rules in NSW are woefully inadequate but Icac’s calls for reform keep getting ignored

Our latest Editorial launches our celebration of the Ottawa Charter at 40! @healthpromint.bsky.social @ottawacharter40.bsky.social academic.oup.com/heapro/artic... Watch my interview with Ilona Kickbusch www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pWr... Or listen on our podcast! open.spotify.com/episode/1GKA...

Agreed - some of us have been working in this area for more than fifty years!

Indeed. Good paper, and the nastiness gets worse, not better.

NEW 🔔 An analysis of social media strategies used to promote the e-cigarette brand Vuse ✍️ Lucy Hardie, Christina Watts, Becky Freeman, Judith McCool OPEN ACCESS doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daaf114

Incredible - what was going through their minds? Are they really so disconnected from reality? www.ijhpm.com/article_4593...

Good article and linked paper. Measures that will genuinely protect young people from vape marketing should be a priority.