Tobacco Tactics Tobacco Tactics is the essential source for rigorous research on the tobacco industry. Want to stay one-step ahead of Big Tobacco? Stay in touch with Tobacco Tactics

Follow us and check out tobaccotactics.org to find out more about the tactics and activities of companies such as BAT.

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The board of British American Tobacco, one of the most powerful and profitable #TobaccoCompanies in the world, met in London yesterday. They had a lot to say about their business and @tcrgbath.bsky.social & @ashorguk.bsky.social were there to hear it.

A Healthier Profit: The cost of business as usual and the case for health. Nason Maani, Sandro Galea

The gap between what we know about commercial forces and health - and what we're doing about it - is large. LHGP's Nason Maani and Sandro Galea's new book, A Healthier Profit @oxunipress.bsky.social sets out to close it. Available for pre-order now ahead of its 2027 launch.

Civil society is essential public health infrastructure that Europe cannot afford to lose Civil society is fundamental to democracy—and to public health. Civil society organisations (CSOs) (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-content/glossary/civ

Civil society is essential public health infrastructure that Europe cannot afford to lose url: academic.oup.com/eurpub/artic...

LHGP placement opportunity for public health speciality registrars LHGP placement opportunity for public health speciality registrars

We are offering a unique opportunity for #PublicHealth registrars to contribute to the @lhgp.bsky.social research consortium.

Full details here: www.phiuk.org/news/lhgp-na...

Deadline for applications: 9 am, Tuesday 28 April.

🎉 The 2026 volume of the Annual Review of Public Health is now online. Most downloaded article is "The Politics and Profit of Disinformation in Public Health" arevie.ws/4e9Npa8
@spidermaani.bsky.social @kristinakim.bsky.social May van Schalkwyk @markpetticrew.bsky.social @marcozenone.bsky.social

Neil Young The Old Laughing Lady 1976 incognito in Glasgow YouTube video by Peter Silie

Neil did a little busking earlier that day: www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5WA...

Leather is a deforestation driver.

We’ve joined NGOs calling on the Commission not to exclude leather from the EU Deforestation Regulation.

Removing it would allow products linked to deforestation into the EU market.

Strong laws must be based on scientific evidence, not industry lobbying.

This is what corporate capture looks like! | Corporate Europe Observatory Where do the EU deregulation laws come from? From extensive talks between the European Commission and business groups, often in opaque new types of dialogue, according to the report “This is what corp...

Corporations are writing EU law.

We need to:
✊ defend ethical standards
✊ stop corporate capture
✊ drop all rigged consultation methods that allow corporate lobbyists to dominate
✊ a broad based campaign to defend and expand the protection of the public interest

corporateeurope.org/en/2026/04/w...

The Business of Health Misinformation - Local Health and Global Profits webinar YouTube video by Population Health Improvement UK

Missed our Business of #Health #Misinformation #webinar? Watch it now on YouTube. With 79% of the UK on social media and 22% getting health information there (rising to 40% among Gen Z), the stakes around misinformation have never been higher.

youtu.be/j3CRlSeHZio @spidermaani.bsky.social

Carling F.A. Partnership coaster

We are asking members of the public to help build a new interactive website that charts the history of tobacco, alcohol and gambling sponsorship in British sport. Find items in your attic and get involved today!

Read more on the #SocSciHub: tinyurl.com/2z665s64

Up to 90% of disease risks are linked to environment rather than genetics alone

🔴Taking place now:

#STOA study author Prof Roel Vermeulen presents progress made & future perspectives of #exposome research at @sant.europarl.europa.eu

📺 Watch: link.europa.eu/FbjtjD
Study: europa.eu/!FxtWrk

10 years ago today the UK Govt announced the Soft Drinks Industry Levy – a mandatory tax on sugar in soft drinks for manufacturers. 🥤

In a new blog, BHF Policy Officer Zoe Rostas reflects on the Levy's successes and what we can learn from it as the Govt looks to 'end the obesity epidemic.’ 🍎🎯

Telly Savalas Looks at Birmingham YouTube video by seacaptainjoe

When people ask me what cinema can be, I merely show them this. And I say. This, THIS is cinema.

Announcing DeSmog's Koch Network Database The Koch Network Database is a new resource library built by DeSmog to assist journalists, academic researchers, and the public to learn more about the backgrounds of individuals and organizations ass...

www.desmog.com/2019/08/07/a...

Important piece on 'evidential landscaping', conflicts of interest and limitations in the evidence base, in research on digital technologies and health

Similar to the consensus that there being ‘no safe lower limit’ to alcohol consumption, there is no ‘harmless’ level of driving. To reduce driving harm, driving itself needs to be reduced both by creating a built environment conducive to other modes and by reducing the incentives for driving. Harm is harm, and driving harm needs to be considered alongside the other big commercial killers of our age.

🔔 NEW
 
Calling for a more coherent policy response to driving harm
 
✍️ Kate Gray, Grant Ennis, Greg Fell
 
OPEN ACCESS doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daag026

@felly500.bsky.social @ianwalker.bsky.social @activetowns.bsky.social @davidzipper.bsky.social @wesmars.bsky.social @thewaroncars.bsky.social @carltonreid.com @carlosmorenofr.bsky.social @sethlaj.bsky.social @reenamahajan.bsky.social @spidermaani.bsky.social @markpetticrew.bsky.social

#alcohol #PublicHealth

Reform's Matt Goodwin Advises Conservative Peer Linked to Relaunched Nazi Race Science Platform Reform's Gorton and Denton by-election candidate advises Toby Young, who has advocated for "progressive eugenics" and has ties to the front publication for a reconstituted Nazi eugenics foundation

BREAKING: Reform’s Gorton and Denton by-election candidate advises Tory peer Lord Toby Young, who has advocated for “progressive eugenics” and is in a business partnership with the editor of a reconstituted Nazi eugenics platform - by me via @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/02/24/r...

A screenshot of an Android app. Text: ▲ Nearby Glasses Smart Glasses are probably nearby Device: Unknown RSSI: -42 dBm Reason: Meta Company ID (0x058E) Company: Meta Platforms, Inc. This app notifies you when smart glasses are nearby. It uses company identificators in the Bluetooth data sent out by these. Therefore, there likely are false positives (e.g. from VR headsets). Hence, please proceed with caution when approaching a person nearby wearing glasses. They might just be regular glasses, despite this app's warning. Debug Log [19:08:40] Unknown (-50 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:40] Unknown (-50 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:41] Unknown (-34 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:42] Unknown (-34 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:42] Unknown (-34 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:42] Unknown (-57 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:43] Unknown (-40 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:43] Unknown (-42 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:43] Unknown (-42 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:44] Unknown (-42 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:44] Unknown (-42 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:44] Unknown (-42 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:45] Unknown (-40 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:45] Unknown (-63 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E)

I made an app.
play.google.com/store/apps/d...
Nearby Glasses is here to warn you when smart glasses are nearby.

I hope it's useful for someone.

Nearby Glasses's open source, free and rather simple
github.com/yjeanrenaud/...

It's also downloadable outside the Play Store. iOS port is in the making

Following ban of 'milk' as a term I fell into a small rabbit whole of the concept of milk as we understand it in Europe. 🧵

STINGRAY TAKES UP ATTACK POSITION! WASP'S BATTLE PLAN AT first light today, Stingray slipped quietly from Marineville Harbour and headed out to sea. Four miles off shore, the WASP patrol vessel made contact with the robot towing ship Yig before diving beneath the waves. According to Marineville tower, Stingray has taken up attack position in a carefully laid plan to smash Titan's new weapon, the mechanical flying bombs. What the plan involves is a closely guarded secret, but Commander Shore is aboard the new WASP vessel Sea Leopard and waiting to put to sea at the first sign of action in the area. Full report pages 4 and 5. Fireball in Crash landing THE fantastic theft of the Electrode 909, World Space Patrol's new fighter, lurched from the daring to the deadly today when Fireball XL5 was dragged on to the unexplored planet of Mellates today. According to space station M12, Colonel Zodiac had closed in on the Electrode and fired home magnetic clamps, but the three astronovices aboard the fighter had already lost control of the ship, which was plunging toward Mellates, caught in the planet's fierce gravitational pull. Before Fireball could release the clamps, the friction heat of re-entry had welded them to the Electrode's hull and the great patrol vessel was dragged on to the planet. Space City is waiting for Colonel Zodiac's report before deciding on the next course of action. So far there has been no news from Mellates. It is feared XL5’s radio is out of action (Full report page 16/17)

💥Supermarionation Sunday💥

On a Monday 🤦‍♀️

Today’s news, today

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The WSP Press Officer’s knowledge of Physics isn’t any better than Matt Matic’s…

Keep at it! Always enjoy your stuff and Hannah H's exchanges 👍

Autocrats are Haunting my Dreams, by Andy Spearpoint from the album Autocrats are Haunting my Dreams

andyspearpoint.bandcamp.com/track/autocr...
New FADs' Andy Spearpoint

#SocialMediaAddiction #AddictiveDesign #BigTech

One might think that ramming phone gambling apps down the collective American throat is a poor idea but you do you capitalism

Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)

« Une stratégie de désinformation » : le « père » du Nutri-Score dénonce des vidéos usurpant son identité avec une IA Une mystérieuse chaîne YouTube poste des contenus mettant en scène un avatar créé par intelligence artificielle du Pr Serge Hercberg. Ils pr

« Une stratégie de désinformation » : le « père » du Nutri-Score dénonce des vidéos usurpant son identité avec une IA

New research shows that spending less on tobacco, gambling and sweets is good for the UK economy - Sheffield Addictions Research Group A new study from the Sheffield Addictions Research Group (SARG) has found that public health policies which reduce spending on harmful products can actually provide a significant boost to UK jobs and ...

What an interesting piece of research.

“A new study from the Sheffield Addictions Research Group (SARG) has found that public health policies which reduce spending on harmful products can actually provide a significant boost to UK jobs and the wider economy.”

sarg-sheffield.ac.uk/news-media/n...