This is a really important paper about protecting health policy from potential loopholes that can be exploited by the tobacco industry tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/earl...

Latest News: In the US, statewide comprehensive smoke-free policies could potentially serve as population-level interventions to reduce the risk of cognitive impairment. https://bit.ly/4p9rMdk

Save the date for the SRNT-Oceania Chapter 2025 Conference in Meanjin/Brisbane When: 1st-2nd June 2026 Where: University of Queensland Herston Campus More details to come, stay tuned!

Latest News: This study reports an exploratory methodology for quantifying estimates of e-liquid consumption among youth using population- level survey data and indicates substantial levels of use. https://bit.ly/4n0tcov

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

Join us for a webinar presented by FNU & SRNT-O: "Tobacco Control in the Pacific Region- Progress, Challenges and the Way Forward" Date: Tuesday Sept 9, 2025 Time: 11:30AM-1:00PM FJT/9:30AM-11:00AM AEST Zoom: fijinationaluniversity.zoom.us/j/83592015115 Add to your calendar: calget.com/zmwr5gwa

American Public Health Association: “Legislators and officials at all levels of government who are interested in protecting their constituents should demand Kennedy’s removal.” That’s what I call leadership 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 www.apha.org/news-and-med...

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

Latest News: These findings from the UK provide support for a foundational, yet overlooked, role of standardised packaging, which is to help people who previously smoked to stay quit. https://bit.ly/4ox5W2R

I'm so proud of our study, out today. Young vapers (under 25s) approx 3 times more likely to go on to smoke. tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/earl...

The kind of across the board respect Antony Green has is incredibly rare. Election nights won’t be the same without him. Enjoy retirement! #ausvotes

First #AusVotes where the brickbats were out for opposition! #auspol

Responding to US executive orders and Trump 2.0: ideological language bans and attempts to suppress science will not obscure the tobacco epidemic’s foundations of exploitation and inequity. tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/34/2... @whofctc.bsky.social #LungSky

Agreed. In 1967 Senator Robert F. Kennedy said “The cigarette industry is peddling a deadly weapon…cigarettes would have been banned years ago were it not for the tremendous economic power of their producers.” Will Robert Kennedy Jr curb Big Tobacco influence, rather than research and staff numbers?

#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky #neuroskyence #neurosci #PainResearch #addictionsci 🧪🛟 🫁 America is at risk of losing a generation of scientists www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...

Many people oppose banning filtered cigarettes, thinking they make smoking safer. The truth: They don’t. 🔎 Based on data from the 2022 International #Tobacco Control Four Country Smoking and Vaping Survey, researchers examined opposition to banning filtered cigarettes, 🔻

An investigation by The BMJ shows the extent of the fossil fuel industry’s involvement in medical research, leading to fresh calls for academics and publishing companies to cut ties with such companies www.bmj.com/content/387/...

So important to expose these tactics of the companies behind commercial drivers of disease

Join the 🌎 Global Scientific Network on Law and Tobacco (GSNLT) #Webinar on 🔟 December 9:00 – 10:00am CET ☑️learn about tobacco and #HumanRights ☑️discuss #TobaccoControl in different global contexts ☑️contribute to the planning of the GSNLT ➡️ Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Welcome new followers, it’s great to see communities growing here! I’m having trouble keeping up but nudge me if you work on tobacco control or #TobaccoEndgame & want to be added to this starter pack. Pls have a bio so it’s clear you’re not a bot

The new US Surgeon General's report on tobacco is out, and it is worth a read, not only if you are a tobacco researcher but also if you are interested in health disparities. For those who don't know, these are well-researched reports that come out every year. www.cdc.gov/tobacco-surg...

The latest Surgeon General’s report is released on tobacco related health disparities. www.cdc.gov/tobacco-surg...

An insightful analysis that picks apart the social gradient of socially-caused health inequality. About COPD but applicable to many other health conditions

List of tobacco treatment researchers on Bluesky! Please comment if you want to be added. Let's build an online community for healthy discourse on research related to tobacco treatment development, evaluation, dissemination, and implementation!

Some #tobaccoendgame #inspo to kick off the weekend. 🙌🏻

Also goes for the word “habit” in reporting about commercial drivers of disease. Changing “habits” to “products” in this headline would completely change the framing

Another great #PublicHealth resource for newbies here

#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky 🧪🛟 Having worked with the WHO on tobacco control, the impact on FDA regulations on public health decisions by small and developing countries cannot be overstated. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...

Great paper on combined impact of alcohol and tobacco taxes on public health

Researchers estimate that US$25.7 billion is lost annually (waste management and marine ecosystem service losses) due to cigarette plastic sources

Aotearoa New Zealand threw away a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for an equity-based #TobaccoEndgame when a new government repealed the smokefree 2025 plan tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/33/e... w @cretobacco.bsky.social researchers @predwards.bsky.social @coralgartner.bsky.social

Towards health with justice: making the tobacco industry accountable through administrative liability. tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/33/e... @bmj.com @ashorguk.bsky.social

This is a new opinion piece by martinmckee.bsky.social, me and Kent Buse on the weaponisation of disinformation in the presidential campaign and why it matters for all of us Here I set out a thread covering the main points. Please share! 1/13

This legislation will be a starting gun on ending smoking in this country. Let your MP know why this would matter to you and your family. Lots of MPs are new to Parliament and they need to know what their constituents think

"Let’s be clear: Kennedy’s views are not 'alternative' to orthodoxy, meant to shake up the system—they are verifiably false. They are nonsense." Nice overview here about how public health could be dismantled. 🛟🧪😷 health policy policysky polisky sociology idsky lawsky 📈🧭

An important read

ICYMI: disinformation reigns, to X-it or not, Māori rights, climate adaptation and global health updates www.croakey.org/icymi-disinf... "As the climate crumbles and extreme weather increasingly devastates large-scale agriculture, a facility for people to grow food of their own will be critical.”

New BMJ Tobacco Control issue Centering Justice & Equity tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/33/e... Includes policy, gender issues in tobacco cultivation, retail tobacco availability, and experiences of minority groups disproportionately impacted by the tobacco epidemic, with an equity & justice lens

Very sad for so many people whose lives will be cut short. China could be a leader in ending the #tobacco epidemic. They have good public health people there doing their best. But instead of reining in the industry, China’s leaders are positioning the country as the world’s dirty ashtray. #shame

Professor Anna Gilmore's Innovations in Tobacco Control Lecture for the Institute for Global Tobacco Control is available now. Watch to find out more about Prof. Gilmore's work on #TobaccoControl and the Commercial Determinants of Health #CDoH. 👉 youtu.be/enBb-e_gXsU?...

Also useful for commercial determinants of health people!

At least a few bright spots. That “mandate” could crumble very quickly. for Trump and his MAGATS

One week after Election Day, Harris’s loss still stings. But a closer look at Tuesday’s results reveals some bright spots for Democrats. See why all is not lost—head to The Big Picture for the full story.

“In permitting a former senior tobacco employee and consultant for the world’s largest tobacco company to join this advisory committee, we jeopardise its objectivity and integrity.” - Sophie Braznell, University of Bath’s Tobacco Control Research Group ow.ly/5Lm650U4zfl

South Australia may create a #smokefree generation, setting an example for the rest of Australia. 🚭 www.croakey.org/south-austra... @coralgartner.bsky.social @croakeynews.bsky.social

#TobaccoEndgame #TobRegSky #TobaccoControl

I’ve put together a starter pack for the growing tobacco control community here. Enjoy, and please let me know if you want to join or recommend others - i know there’s many I’ve missed! go.bsky.app/NuhMfmW

March Tobacco Control editorial: tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/33/2...

Colleagues and I explain why NZ govt's proposal to repeal smokefree legislation lacks evidence. www.phcc.org.nz/briefing/smo...

Keeping NZ’s smokefree laws would be good for health and make economic sense