Large-scale unassisted smoking cessation over 50 years: lessons from history for endgame planning in tobacco controlSimon Chapman
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Tob Control 22:i33-i35. 2013
..We argue that there are potentially risky consequences of unravelling such bans when history suggests that large-scale cessation is demonstrably possible...
The case for a smoker's licenseSimon Chapman
University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
PLoS Med 9:e1001342. 2012
..One such effort is discussed in this PLOS Medicine Debate, where Simon Chapman presents his proposal for a "smoker's license" and Jeff Collin argues against...
- The growth in newspaper coverage of tobacco control in China, 2000-2010
Junling Gao
School of Public Health, Fudan University, Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety, Ministry of Education, Shanghai 200032, China
BMC Public Health 12:160. 2012
..This study aims to describe news coverage of tobacco control related issues in Chinese newspapers from 2000 to 2010...
Policies and practices on competing interests of academic staff in Australian universitiesSimon Chapman
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW
Med J Aust 196:452-6. 2012
..To document the existence and provisions of Australian universities' policies on the competing interests of academic staff and university practices in recording, updating and making these declarations publicly accessible...
- Bibliographic analysis of papers and authors published in Tobacco Control 1998-September 2011
Simon Chapman
University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Tob Control 21:198-201. 2012
..Papers on youth and secondhand smoke dominated the top 20 papers, although harm reduction and packaging papers appeared in the post 2008 leading cited papers...
- Democratising assessment of researchers' track records: a simple proposal
Simon Chapman
Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Med J Aust 195:147-8. 2011
..How to ensure a better match between grant applicant and reviewer expertise...
- Wind farms and health: who is fomenting community anxieties?
Simon Chapman
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW
Med J Aust 195:495. 2011
- Identifying trustworthy experts: how do policymakers find and assess public health researchers worth consulting or collaborating with?
Abby S Haynes
Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia
PLoS ONE 7:e32665. 2012
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- The lightest market in the world: light and mild cigarettes in Japan
Mary Assunta
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Nicotine Tob Res 10:803-10. 2008
..Light and mild cigarettes are popular in Japan because Japanese smokers believe low tar/nicotine cigarette with charcoal filters protect them and help mollify their health concerns about smoking...
- Galvanizers, guides, champions, and shields: the many ways that policymakers use public health researchers
Abby S Haynes
The Sax Institute, University of Sydney, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Queensland, Australia
Milbank Q 89:564-98. 2011
..It also explores the extent to which policymakers' accounts of using researchers concur with the experiences of "policy-engaged" public health researchers...
- Smoking-related disease on Australian television news: inaccurate portrayals may contribute to public misconceptions
Ross MacKenzie
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Aust N Z J Public Health 33:144-6. 2009
..To describe the range and frequency of reportage of tobacco-related disease on Australian television news...
- Mixed messages and a missed opportunity: Australian news media coverage of Clare Oliver's campaign against solaria
Ross MacKenzie
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW
Med J Aust 189:371-4. 2008
..To review television and print media coverage of the campaign to regulate solaria that was initiated by Clare Oliver before her death from melanoma in late 2007, and to investigate how the media constructed the aetiology of her disease...
- 'A matter of faith, not science': analysis of media coverage of prostate cancer screening in Australian news media 2003-2006
Ross MacKenzie
School of Public Health, University of Sydney 2006, Australia
J R Soc Med 100:513-21. 2007
..The objective of this study was to examine media coverage of prostate-cancer screening in Australia...
- "No respecter of youth": over-representation of young women in Australian television coverage of breast cancer
Ross MacKenzie
School of Public Health A27, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
J Cancer Educ 25:565-70. 2010
..Overrepresentation of young women with breast cancer in television news coverage does not reflect the epidemiology of the disease. This imbalance may contribute to public uncertainty regarding screening policy...
- The newsworthiness of cancer in Australian television news
Ross MacKenzie
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Med J Aust 189:155-8. 2008
..To test the hypothesis that television news coverage of different cancers reflects their incidence and burden, and to examine the journalistic approaches used in reporting cancer...
- Forecasting future tobacco control policy: where to next?
Becky Freeman
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, New South Wales School of Population Health, The University of Queensland School of Public Health, University of Sydney, New South Wales
Aust N Z J Public Health 34:447-50. 2010
..As these policies have been largely implemented in Australia, what next should the country do in tobacco control?..
- Tobacco in the news: associations between news coverage, news recall and smoking-related outcomes in a sample of Australian smokers and recent quitters
Sally M Dunlop
Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia
Health Educ Res 27:160-71. 2012
..Media advocacy remains an important component of tobacco control...
- Room for improvement: mixed portrayal of young people with mental illness on Australian television news
Connie Henson
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 44:267-72. 2010
..The aim of the present study was to review television news depiction of mental illness in children and adolescents to test the hypothesis that positive portrayals of adults with mental illness also apply to young people...
- Framing pub smoking bans: an analysis of Australian print news media coverage, March 1996-March 2003
David Champion
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Australia
J Epidemiol Community Health 59:679-84. 2005
..Australia's recent success in securing dates for the implementation of smoke free pubs is likely to have owed much to the enduring media advocacy by health groups...
- Framing and the marginalisation of evidence in media reportage of policy debate about alcopops, Australia 2008-2009: implications for advocacy
Andrea S Fogarty
School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Drug Alcohol Rev 30:569-76. 2011
..The tax was associated with both and overall net reduction in alcohol consumption (2.7%) and reduction specifically in ready-to-drink spirits (26.1%)...
- 'A disease many people still feel uncomfortable talking about': Australian television coverage of colorectal cancer
Ross MacKenzie
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Psychooncology 19:283-8. 2010
..To examine the coverage of colorectal cancer on Australian television news over a 3 year period commencing May 2005, and compare it with that given to other cancers...
- The content and structure of Australian television reportage on health and medicine, 2005-2009: parameters to guide health workers
Simon Chapman
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Med J Aust 191:620-4. 2009
..To describe the content and structure of health and medical news and current affairs reportage on free-to-air television in Sydney, New South Wales...
- Communicating uncertainty--how Australian television reported H1N1 risk in 2009: a content analysis
Andrea S Fogarty
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
BMC Public Health 11:181. 2011
..This paper presents a case-study of news communication regarding the emergence of pH1N1...
- From "our world" to the "real world": Exploring the views and behaviour of policy-influential Australian public health researchers
Abby S Haynes
University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Soc Sci Med 72:1047-55. 2011
..This study may help researchers consider their own policy-related roles, strategies and relationships in the context of increasing calls for research that serves economic and/or social goals...
- CHAMP: a novel collaboration between public health and the media
Melissa A Sweet
Sweet Communication, NSW, Australia
Med J Aust 190:206-7. 2009
..CHAMP was established to enhance public debate about health, to encourage public health advocates to engage in debate, and to help the media to identify public health advocates and issues as sources for articles...
- Advocates, interest groups and Australian news coverage of alcohol advertising restrictions: content and framing analysis
Andrea S Fogarty
Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Edward Ford Building A27, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
BMC Public Health 12:727. 2012
..This paper examines news coverage of recommendations to restrict alcohol advertising to see how supporters and opponents frame the debate, with a view to providing some suggestions for policy advocates to advance the discussion...
- Banning smoking in cars carrying children: an analytical history of a public health advocacy campaign
Becky Freeman
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, New South Wales
Aust N Z J Public Health 32:60-5. 2008
..In this paper we summarise the 12-year Australian history of advocacy for banning smoking in cars carrying children, culminating in the governments of the Australian States of South Australia and Tasmania enacting legislation...
- Political dynamics promoting the incremental regulation of secondhand smoke: a case study of New South Wales, Australia
Katherine Bryan-Jones
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
BMC Public Health 6:192. 2006
..This paper examines the political dynamics that have shaped this incremental approach to SHS...
- What maintains parental support for vaccination when challenged by anti-vaccination messages? A qualitative study
Julie Leask
National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases, The Children s Hospital at Westmead, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, Australia
Vaccine 24:7238-45. 2006
..Stories about people affected by vaccine-preventable diseases need to re-enter the public discourse...
- Repealing Australia's ban on smokeless tobacco? Hasten slowly
Simon Chapman
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Med J Aust 188:47-9. 2008
..We need to be sure any introduction of smokeless tobacco will actually reduce overall harm...
- More us than them: positive depictions of mental illness on Australian television news
Connie Henson
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 43:554-60. 2009
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- Framing responsibility: coverage of lung cancer among smokers and non-smokers in Australian television news
Ross MacKenzie
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Aust N Z J Public Health 35:66-70. 2011
..To analyse news portrayals of lung cancer and associated inferences about responsibility in Australian television news...
- Media influence on Herceptin subsidization in Australia: application of the rule of rescue?
Ross MacKenzie
School of Public Health, University of Sydney 2006, Australia
J R Soc Med 101:305-12. 2008
..The cost to the government would be A$470 million over three years for treatment of an estimated 2100 women annually...
- British American Tobacco on Facebook: undermining Article 13 of the global World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
Becky Freeman
A27 School of Public Health, Room 129A, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Tob Control 19:e1-9. 2010
..In this paper, the activities of employees of the transnational tobacco company, British American Tobacco, (BAT) on Facebook and the type of content associated with two globally popular BAT brands (Dunhill and Lucky Strike) are mapped...
- Smokers and non-smokers talk about regulatory options in tobacco control
Stacy M Carter
Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, Central Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia 2006
Tob Control 15:398-404. 2006
..We examined laypeople's conversations to understand how 11 regulatory options were supported or opposed in interactions...
- A bibliometric analysis of research on Indigenous health in Australia, 1972-2008
Gemma E Derrick
Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, New South Wales
Aust N Z J Public Health 36:269-73. 2012
..To determine the growth patterns and citation volume of research publications referring to Indigenous health in Australia from 1972 to 2008 compared to seven selected health fields...
- The case for the plain packaging of tobacco products
Becky Freeman
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
Addiction 103:580-90. 2008
..It critiques legal objections raised by the industry about plain packaging violating laws and international trade agreements...
- "The news is [not] all good": misrepresentations and inaccuracies in Australian news media reports on prostate cancer screening
Ross MacKenzie
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Med J Aust 187:507-10. 2007
..To list and critically review recent inaccurate statements made by advocates of prostate cancer screening in Australian news media...
- Pig's blood in cigarette filters: how a single news release highlighted tobacco industry concealment of cigarette ingredients
Ross MacKenzie
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Australia
Tob Control 20:169-72. 2011
..The case study illustrates the power of press releases to ignite major interest in tobacco control issues...
- Risks of smoking: all done and dusted
Simon Chapman
School of Public Health, Edward Ford Building, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
BMJ 334:s16. 2007
- Environmental tobacco smoke research published in the journal Indoor and Built Environment and associations with the tobacco industry
David Garne
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Lancet 365:804-9. 2005
..On the basis of the evidence presented in this paper, there is a serious concern the tobacco industry may have been unduly influential on the content of the journal...
- Can even minimal news coverage influence consumer health-related behaviour? A case study of iodized salt sales, Australia
Mu Li
School of Public HealthUniversity of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Health Educ Res 23:543-8. 2008
..We conclude that even brief news media exposure can influence health-related decisions...
- The association between four citation metrics and peer rankings of research influence of Australian researchers in six fields of public health
Gemma Elizabeth Derrick
Sydney School of Public Health, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
PLoS ONE 6:e18521. 2011
..This will aid the development of comprehensive and relevant frameworks with which to fairly and transparently distribute research funds or approve promotion applications...
- An analysis of media coverage on the prevention and early detection of CKD in Australia
Allison Tong
NHMRC Centre for Clinical Research Excellence in Renal Medicine, Centre for Kidney Research, Children s Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, NSW, Australia
Am J Kidney Dis 52:159-70. 2008
..Extending news media coverage can help exert an influence on health policies and agenda setting and increase public awareness to improve prevention and early detection of CKD...
- "Bulletproof skeptics in life's jungle": which self-exempting beliefs about smoking most predict lack of progression towards quitting?
Wendy Oakes
School of Public Health, University of Sydney 2006, Australia
Prev Med 39:776-82. 2004
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- Smoking status of 132,176 people advertising on a dating website. Are smokers more "desperate and dateless"?
Simon Chapman
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, NSW
Med J Aust 181:672-4. 2004
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- Measuring interactivity on tobacco control websites
Becky Freeman
School of Public Health, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
J Health Commun 17:857-65. 2012
..Interactivity and connectedness to online social media appears to still be in its infancy among tobacco control-relevant sites...
- Citation bias in reported smoking prevalence in people with schizophrenia
Simon Chapman
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia syd edu au
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 43:277-82. 2009
..The purpose of the present paper was therefore to determine if citation bias exists in the over-citation and reportage of studies finding high rates of smoking prevalence in schizophrenia subjects...
- Health treaty dilution: a case study of Japan's influence on the language of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
Mary Assunta
School of Public Health, Edward Ford Building, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
J Epidemiol Community Health 60:751-6. 2006
..Negotiations to develop the WHO's historic Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) were based on consensus, resulting in countries needing to agree to the lowest acceptable common denominator in clause development...
- Reducing tobacco consumption
Simon Chapman
School of Public Health, University of Sydney
N S W Public Health Bull 14:46-8. 2003
- Media coverage of anthrax vaccination refusal by Australian Defence Force personnel
Deonna Ackermann
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney 2006, Australia
Vaccine 23:411-7. 2004
..CONCLUSION: Marked shifts in the representation of vaccine opponents and proponents possibly contributed to the rapid diminishment of media interest in the story...
- Impact of news of celebrity illness on breast cancer screening: Kylie Minogue's breast cancer diagnosis
Simon Chapman
School of Public Health, Building A27, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Med J Aust 183:247-50. 2005
..To describe the main media narratives in the reportage of singer Kylie Minogue's illness with breast cancer; and to assess the impact of this coverage on bookings for screening for breast cancer by mammography in four Australian states...
- Never say die?
Simon Chapman
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Building A27, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Med J Aust 183:622-4. 2005
- Is "YouTube" telling or selling you something? Tobacco content on the YouTube video-sharing website
Becky Freeman
The University of Sydney, Sydney 2006, NSW, Australia
Tob Control 16:207-10. 2007
- The decline in gun deaths
Simon Chapman
School of Public Health, University of Sydney
N S W Public Health Bull 14:48-50. 2003
- Nicotine analogues: a review of tobacco industry research interests
Rosemary Vagg
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Australia
Addiction 100:701-12. 2005
..Any regulatory drafting should broaden the definition of nicotine in order to incorporate analogues into the scope of pharmacologically active substances being regulated...
- 'Disease, disaster and despair'? The presentation of health in low- and middle-income countries on Australian television
Michelle Imison
Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
PLoS ONE 5:e14106. 2010
..In high-income nations mainstream television news remains an important source of information about both general health issues and low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). However, research on news coverage of health in LMICs is scarce...
- "All manner of ills": The features of serious diseases attributed to vaccination
Julie Leask
National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance, The Children s Hospital at Westmead, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Locked Bag 4001, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia
Vaccine 28:3066-70. 2010
..Any attempt to re-frame erroneous claims about vaccination first requires an identification of the deeper anxieties in which they are located...
- The blood money tradition continues
Simon Chapman
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney 2006, Australia
Br J Ophthalmol 91:1578. 2007
- Regulating the global vector for lung cancer
Simon Chapman
University of Sydney, Sydney 2006, New South Wales, Australia
Lancet 367:706-8. 2006
- An analysis of newspaper reports of cancer breakthroughs: hope or hype?
Ethel S Ooi
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Med J Aust 179:639-43. 2003
..To assess the importance of cancer "breakthroughs" reported in the popular media 10 years after their publication...
- Agent of change: more than "a nuisance to the tobacco industry"
Simon Chapman
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, NSW
Med J Aust 177:661-33. 2002
- Tobacco control advocacy in the age of social media: using Facebook, Twitter and Change
Marita Hefler
A27 School of Public Health, Room 129A, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Tob Control 22:210-4. 2013
..This paper presents three case studies of using social media for tobacco control advocacy, demonstrates how social media can facilitate direct and effective action, and provides tools and lessons learned for future campaigns...
- 'The cold hard facts' immunisation and vaccine preventable diseases in Australia's newsprint media 1993-1998
Julie Leask
Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Sydney, Australia
Soc Sci Med 54:445-57. 2002
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- Australian television news coverage of alcohol, health and related policies, 2005 to 2010: implications for alcohol policy advocates
Andrea S Fogarty
School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, New South Wales
Aust N Z J Public Health 36:530-6. 2012
..To describe television news coverage between 2005 and 2010 of alcohol, health and relevant alcohol-control policies, with a view to informing policy advocacy...
- Sex and drugs in popular movies: an analysis of the top 200 films
Hasantha Gunasekera
Institute of Child Health Research, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, and Children s Hospital at Westmead, Australia
J R Soc Med 98:464-70. 2005
..Sex depictions in popular movies of the last two decades lacked safe sex messages. Drug use, though infrequent, tended to be depicted positively. The social norm being presented is concerning given the HIV and illicit drug pandemics...
- The global research neglect of unassisted smoking cessation: causes and consequences
Simon Chapman
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Australia
PLoS Med 7:e1000216. 2010
b>Simon Chapman and Ross MacKenzie review the evidence and argue that health promotion messages should emphasize that the most successful method used by most ex-smokers is unassisted cessation.
