More teenagers are now smoking regularly than if pre-vaping smoking trends had continued, widening inequities for Māori and Pacific youth.

But the inquiry has still not revealed who wrote the 'mystery document', which claimed nicotine was no more harmful than caffeine.

Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) is a campaigning public health charity that works to eliminate the harm caused by tobacco.

The study, which will inform the government's impending social media ban for under-16s, found several methods were viable, but no method was foolproof, with concerns over both accuracy and privacy.

Vape manufacturers mirror traditional tobacco marketing, including stylish branding, flavours and sponsorships, to reach young people through social media.

The NSW Government will introduce tough new laws to crackdown on the sale of illicit tobacco and illegal vaping goods across the state.

In October last year, we published findings from our retrospective cohort analysis of data from the Generation Vape study in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, accompanied by an ...

Landlords would be given the power to evict tenants caught selling illegal cigarettes in a plan to fight the thriving tobacco black market.

Abstract. Education and employment are well-acknowledged social determinants of health. However, little is known about how young women in rural, resource-d

Although Australia is a world leader in smoking cessation, we’ve done very little to control how and where tobacco is sold. These shops are everywhere.

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Labor’s stunning election victory and the relegation of the conservative opposition to likely years of political eunuch status opens up many opportunities across all areas of government. With healt…

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Over the last month we have seen political changes in the USA shake the foundations of societies, economies and institutions around the world. Science itself is under siege - eroded by misinformation,

At the Sydney School of Public Health, our vision is to promote and protect health equity and wellbeing for all populations and the environments we share, nationally and globally.

As gambling companies increasingly target young people, many are becoming frustrated by a lack of government action to protect them from gambling harms.

We have a "relatively low" smoking rate, but the Cancer Council says 66 Australians are still dying from smoking-related illness every day.

Retailers have a three-month grace period to sell any old stock already in their stores. Here’s what’s behind these changes – and what needs to happen next.

Some U.S. health regulators who review medical devices and tobacco products for safety and efficacy are struggling to meet deadlines mandated by Congress due to Trump administration layoffs, three scientists working on the projects told Reuters.

A 2020 study is frequently cited as evidence that vaping reduces youth smoking rates. But the research is flawed. Vaping might be a gateway for teens to start smoking.

Dr Colin Mendelsohn recently published a co-authored paywalled paper in Addiction comparing smoking and vaping prevalence in adults and adolescents in New Zealand and Australia during 2016-2023, wh…

Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.

Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling efforts to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. Many workers expressed fear at what would happen to the work they left behin...

Words such as “health equity” are being replacing with vaguer terms, and 100 members sent a letter of protest to NASEM leaders.

I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving.