Thursday, 11 June 2026
Activist-academia
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I talk a lot about "activist-academics", but what other word can you use when a professor is literally recruiting young people, tr...
Vaping and lung cancer
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A study was published this week claiming that vaping causes lung cancer. The journal has helpfully published the peer review comments. One r...
Monday, 8 June 2026
Game over for Australia
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Incredible scenes in Australia where illicit sales officially now make up 80% of the tobacco market. I wrote about this for The Critic ... ...
Wednesday, 3 June 2026
Extended Producer Responsibility, more government failure
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Extended Producer Responsibility is a boring name for a boring regulation, but it is worth understanding if you want to see how the govern...
Tuesday, 19 May 2026
The anti-gambling slush fund
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I said that the gambling levy would provide a slush fund for spongers and activists, and it has. Dozens of pieces of research have alrea...
Monday, 18 May 2026
Introducing Action on Gambling
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Action on Smoking and Health's former CEO Deborah Arnott famously insisted that... "the 'domino theory' i.e. that once a ...
Thursday, 14 May 2026
Australia's tobacco tax disaster
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I knew things were bad in Australia but this graph really show how dramatically the black market has grown since the tobacco turf war took o...
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