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
Join us for “Tobacco Control in the Pacific Region: Progress, Challenges and the Way Forward” 📅 9 Sept 2025 🖥️ Hosted Fiji National University & SRNT-Oceania Speakers: Mina Kashiwabara (WHO), Dr Amerita Ravuvu (SPC), Maleli Nakulanikoro (Fiji MOH) 👉 Register: files..com/8872b23a701/...
The tobacco industry’s version of “harm reduction” often protects profit, not people. How does this rhetoric mask colonial harms and deflect responsibility? 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/heap... #HealthJustice#EndColonialHarms
What would it look like to divest from addiction and invest in care, culture & sovereignty? Building love and justice, ending harms: a framework for abolishing the tobacco and nicotine industry offers insights 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/heap... #HealthJustice
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have shown powerful leadership in cutting smoking rates — driving change & saving lives. Now the new lung cancer screening program must match that with access that’s culturally safe and equitable. 🫁 Let’s make it work: theconversation.com/australias-n...
🚨 New from July 2025: The National Lung Cancer Screening Program is here to help detect lung cancer early and save lives. 🫁 Designed for early detection. Focused on our health. 📽️ Explore new videos and community resources from: www.naccho.org.au/resources/#a...
So exactly 75 years today (May 27) since 1950 publication in JAMA of Wynder & Graham landmark paper on smoking and lung cancer. 75 years on, over 8 million deaths a year, and the tobacco industry still flourishes, knowingly selling and promoting a lethal product.
75 years this week since evidence confirming that smoking is lethal with Wynder & Graham’s landmark May 27, 1950 JAMA paper “Tobacco smoking as a possible etiologic factor in bronchiogenic carcinoma” then Doll & Hill’s historic September 30, 1950 BMJ “Smoking and carcinoma of the lung”.
PHAA, Cancer Council Australia, Dementia Australia, and Lung Foundation, are offering 2025 internships! Open to PHAA members who are students or recent grads (within 12 months) in public health or related fields. Application close today, Wed 8 Jan 2025 @ 12pm AEDT www.phaa.net.au/Web/Web/Jobs...
Excellent and important paper in Tobacco Control by Raglan Maddox and colleagues. Sets out clear and unequivocal target for public health and tobacco control. Great start to the year.
