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Being an ‘every so often’ smoker doesn’t make you immune to cancer, heart disease and all of the other nasty health problems that result from inhaling cigarette smoke, writes <b>John Fitzgerald</b>.

The problem with being an ‘every so often’ smoker

May 31, 2011

Australia’s four million-odd smokers had already been paying an extra $5.5 billion a year in tax to smoke, or about $1250 each. Plain packaging is just insulting, says economist and researcher <b>Adam Creighton</b>.

Smokers already being ripped off — plain packaging is just insulting

Apr 12, 2011

Life-time smoker <b>Michael Vaughan</b> was struggling with any more than four stairs. It was time to kick the fags. After a visit with Angelo, the hypnotist, he's travelling beautifully.

Kick the fags, by going under

Michael Vaughan

Feb 02, 2011

<b>Katie Weiss</b> set out to explore how homeless smokers were feeling the pinch after tobacco prices soared under the Rudd Government earlier this year. She discovered few options are available to tackle addiction among the destitute.

Smoking and the homeless: who cares?

Nov 02, 2010

There is one easy, preventative health plan that Rudd could implement: forcing plain packaging of cigarettes. Plain packaging "can kill your business" says the tobacco industry. Precisely.

Plain packs: tobacco industry bares its butts to bluff Rudd

Mar 05, 2010

"To smoke is to be a slave to tobacco" may not sound like a troublesome anti-smoking slogan. But juxtapose that with a young person hinting at a submissive sexual act, and you can understand the controversy surrounding the new French campaign.

Blowing off the tobacco industry

Feb 24, 2010

The US tobacco industry has been secretly meeting with the Solicitor General in a desperate attempt to stay out of the Supreme Court over the landmark 10-year-old racketeering lawsuit that found the industry deliberately concealed the dangers of smoking, <em>AP</em> reveals.

Big Tobacco’s big cover-up

Jan 18, 2010

<a href="http://blogs.crikey.com.au/back-in-a-bit">Back in a Bit</a> blogger <b>Scott Bridges</b> turned over his menu in Mysore, India to discover a helpful little public health message about the golden opportunities available to smokers. First prize: death!

Your chance to win a terrible deathly disease…

Jan 13, 2010

Kate Torney, Director, ABC News, responds to yesterday's piece in Crikey, <a href="http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/23/abcs-24-hour-news-dream-drives-penny-pinching/">ABC's 24-hour news dream drives penny-pinching</a>. She says: "The ABC is aiming to expand its overseas coverage and has no plans to reduce it."

No, the ABC is not reducing it overseas coverage

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Sep 24, 2009

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is running a major campaign to convince Australian smokers that they should not try to quit without taking anti-smoking medication, writes <b>Simon Chapman</b>.

Pfizer’s campaign to drug as many smokers as possible

Sep 18, 2009

The federal government has put tackling high smoking rates amongst Indigenous people at the centre of its plans to "close the gap", writes <b>David Thomas</b>.

Indigenous smoking is finally out of the too-hard-basket

Sep 16, 2009

It is more sensible to reduce cigarette smoking by high taxation on tobacco products than to spend resources on identifying those at increased genetic risk, writes <b>Wayne Hall</b>.

Tax on cigs trumps gene lottery

Sep 09, 2009

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