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Marita Hefler
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Professor of public health, Editor-in-Chief BMJ Tobacco Control @bmjtobacco-control.bsky.social. Qualitative research, #TobaccoEndgame, commercial determinants of health, equity. Opinions mine. Living on unceded Larrakia country, Darwin Australia..
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Marita Hefler @mhef.bsky.social · Nov 12
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
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Thanks #ICYMI contributors: focus on media, incarceration alarm, research matters, alcohol industry power
www.croakey.org/icymi-focus-...
HT @aftinet.bsky.social @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social @pauljbelcher.bsky.social @mhef.bsky.social @menziesresearch.bsky.social @healenviron.bsky.social
ICYMI: focus on media, incarceration alarm, research matters, alcohol industry power – and events not to miss
Noncommunicable diseases, punitive justice policies in the Northern Territory and Queensland, cultural governance of research, long COVID, and a call
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October 24, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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September Issue Editor's Choice: This study explores how the promotion and normalisation of vaping on social media may have trivialised Singapore’s strict vaping ban, potentially driving an illegal market. https://bit.ly/4mLaNeJ
October 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Our NT research team is hiring! Project Manager - Indigenous Engagement & Health Research for NHMRC project using co-design to reduce smoking in remote communities. Alice Springs location preferred, exp engaging male community members highly regarded flinders.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/flinde...
Project Manager - Indigenous Engagement & Health Research
Position Details Fixed Term – 2 Year Contract | Full-Time (Part-Time negotiable) Higher Education Officer Level 7 | $100,233 - $110,954 p.a Higher Education Officer Level 8 | $113,677 - $125,848 p.a. ...
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October 17, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Wow! Town Council in Tiburon (Marin County) unanimously passed a tobacco product sales ban ordinance (third in the state of California)! #MakeTobaccoHistory
#Tobacco #endgame #PublicHealthSky @ash.org @simonchapman.bsky.social @mhef.bsky.social @mikedaube.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Latest News: This study provides the first systematic analysis of alcohol- themed smokeless tobacco content on social media, revealing coordinated commercial posting patterns that link these substances through cultural identity messaging. https://bit.ly/41UWe0C
September 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
mhef.bsky.social
Important analysis in @bmjtobacco-control.bsky.social. Tobacco control advocacy is essential for achieving human rights. Excellent work by @brittakm.bsky.social and @ash.org Kelsey Romeo-Stuppy
tcrgbath.bsky.social Tobacco Control Research Group @tcrgbath.bsky.social · Oct 9
New commentary by TCRG's @brittakm.bsky.social and Kelsey Romeo-Stuppy from @ash.org argues that recognising #tobaccocontrol advocates as human rights defenders would provide them with better protection and align tobacco control with global human rights standards.

👉 Read: doi.org/10.1136/tc-2...
“Tobacco control has always been about defending the right to health, life, and dignity. Yet the advocates who lead this work often face threats without the recognition or protection afforded to other defenders of human rights.”
October 14, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Important analysis ahead of #FCTC #COP11
October 14, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Latest News: Turning tobacco Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) into Extended Producer Liability (EPL): critical safeguards for the UN Plastics Treaty. https://bit.ly/4n7CiQK
September 25, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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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...
bmjtobacco-control.bsky.social Tobacco Control @bmjtobacco-control.bsky.social · Sep 5
Latest News: Turning tobacco Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) into Extended Producer Liability (EPL): critical safeguards for the UN Plastics Treaty. https://bit.ly/47Q8VO3
September 16, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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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
September 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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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!
Flyer for the SRNT-Oceania Chapter 2026 Conference in Meanjin/Brisbane Date: 1st-2nd June 2026 Location: University of Queensland Herston Campus Followed by the Regional Tobacco Endgame Summit on 3rd June More details to come... stay tuned!
September 14, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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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
September 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Latest News: Nicotine pouch brands: the new route of auto racing sponsorships worldwide. https://bit.ly/3V5Gjsq
August 28, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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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
Flyer for webinar titled "Tobacco Control in the Pacific Region". Includes the details of the three speakers: Ms. Mina Kashiwabara | Team Lead on Tobacco Control, WHO Western Pacific Regional Office Dr Amerita Ravuvu | Principal Adviser – Health Policy and Research, Public Health Division, Pacific Community (SPC) Mr. Maleli Nakulanikoro | Fiji Ministry of Health – Tobacco Control Officer
August 27, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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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...
Kennedy’s attack on public health must be stopped
The abrupt attempt to oust Dr. Susan Monarez, the CDC’s director just weeks after her Senate confirmation, is yet another glaring sign of Secretary Kennedy’s failed leadership and reckless mismanageme...
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August 28, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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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
August 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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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
August 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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I'm so proud of our study, out today. Young vapers (under 25s) approx 3 times more likely to go on to smoke.
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Vaping and harm in young people: umbrella review
Objective To appraise and synthesise the evidence on short and longer term harms of vaping in young people. Data sources KSR Evidence (systematic reviews); Medline, Embase, and PsycInfo (umbrella rev...
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August 20, 2025 at 5:13 AM
mhef.bsky.social
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
May 3, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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First #AusVotes where the brickbats were out for opposition! #auspol
May 3, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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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
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
The second Trump administration in the USA is going beyond even the most pessimistic fears of many in the global health community. Chaos has been the defining characteristic of its early weeks,1 with ...
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April 6, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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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?
April 6, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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#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...
Opinion | The Uncertain Fate of the Young American Scientist (Gift Article)
Young researchers are choosing between staying in science and staying in the United States.
www.nytimes.com
April 4, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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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, 🔻
December 4, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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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/...
November 28, 2024 at 10:31 AM