Marita Hefler

Latest News: About 18% of youth and 26% of adults who smoke reported exposure to corrective statements about smoking harms at the point of sale. https://bit.ly/4qBZNTi

‘Independent’ expert who helped shape global vaping debate was paid thousands by Juul A Greek physician who has extensively studied nicotine was paid by Juul to lobby against Israeli vaping regulations. He didn’t disclose the payment in his research.

WoW! Another great investigative piece on Big Nicotine: www.theexamination.org/articles/juu...

#PublicHealthSky @mhef.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

Thanks #ICYMI contributors: focus on media, incarceration alarm, research matters, alcohol industry power
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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

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. ...

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...

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

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

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

Important analysis ahead of #FCTC #COP11

Latest News: Turning tobacco Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) into Extended Producer Liability (EPL): critical safeguards for the UN Plastics Treaty. https://bit.ly/4n7CiQK

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

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

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

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
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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...

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

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...

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...

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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 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 ...

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?

Thanks Sam and Richard!

Welcome! I’ve added her to this tobacco control and endgame starter pack go.bsky.app/NuhMfmW

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.

#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, 🔻

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