Line chart of reported cervical cancer deaths per 100,000 women in the United Kingdom from 1950 to 2021 where the rate falls from about 8.6 deaths per 100,000 in 1950 to about 1.7 in 2021, an approximately 80% decline.

Death rates for cervical cancer in the United Kingdom have fallen by 80% since 1950—

Cervical cancer death rates among women in the United Kingdom have fallen by around 80% since 1950. You can see this reduction in the chart.

This progress happened for a couple of key reasons.

‘Independent’ group Energy for Australians that ran anti-Labor ads received more than $1m from coal lobby Coal Australia denies its donations to the ‘community-driven association’ amount to astroturfing, but critics accuse the group of misleading the public * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast An “independent, community-driven association” that ran anti-Labor adverts during the last federal election was entirely funded by a coal industry lobby group, the Guardian can reveal. Energy for Australians accepted more than $1m from Coal Australia – a group advocating for coal whose members include major miners Yancoal, Peabody, New Hope and Whitehaven. Continue reading...

‘Independent’ group Energy for Australians that ran anti-Labor ads received more than $1m from coal lobby

Notice anything?

Zoe Daniel: renewables experts and advocates need to seize the moment.
".... US president has fractured decades of concerted lobbying, misinformation and disinformation, underpinned by a fortune in funding, to shore up the fossil fuel industry. Clean energy, you have an open lane. Take the gap"

In the middle of a fossil fuel crisis, it’s time to shout the clean energy message loud and clear | Zoe Daniel The case for renewables is clear. Every extra EV on an Australian road is litres of petrol saved, every home battery means less gas used and a more resilient electricity grid * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Dear clean energy industry, this is your moment. Cease your frowning at the roadblocks that have been put in your way. Continue reading...

In the middle of a fossil fuel crisis, it’s time to shout the clean energy message loud and clear | Zoe Daniel

TOBACCO ENDGAME - Using lessons from the UK experience to develop a knowledge toolkit for tobacco control.
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Good analysis and comments from David Pocock who, along with some other MPs, has consistently argued for evidence-based policies that won't please the gambling industry, but will make a difference to the harms their products cause.

‘Small and underwhelming’: Albanese’s gambling reforms won’t do much to reduce harm Anthony Albanese’s new gambling reforms promise much but are really a cautious, politically palatable compromise.

'Small and underwhelming' gambling advertising reforms in Australia. "Without a comprehensive approach, including a national regulator to set the rules, these reforms risk creating an illusion of action." theconversation.com/small-and-un...

The Clash- I’m So Bored With The U.S.A- 5/28/1983 YouTube video by Jeremy Leafey

@punkrockhistory.bsky.social
Not your fault...put it on fuckin' inPotus and those idiots who support him.
youtu.be/JYYKHEr4kuc?...
#RudeBoysDoItBetter

Marketing expenditures and industry transformation: are cigarette companies really shifting away from cigarettes? Introduction Cigarette companies have stated their intent to transition from selling cigarettes to selling less harmful products, such as e-cigarettes. We examine trends in US cigarette marketing expe...

Analysis of US tobacco industry contradicts claims they are 'transitioning' to less harmful products: ".... market reality shows that cigarette marketing expenditures have not been reduced & are continuing to target older, low-income adults who smoke." tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/earl...

Bruce Springsteen. #NoKings

Every Country in Our Supply Chain Has Declared an Emergency. NZ just launched an Ad Campaign. What the ministerial press conference got wrong about NZ's fuel supply, and what it didn't mention at all.

Sobering read. | Every Country in Our Supply Chain Has Declared an Emergency. NZ just launched an Ad Campaign. energyandresilience.substack.com/p/every-coun... #nzpol

Alcohol lobbyists given input on health policies, documents reveal Industry groups helped develop several initiatives about alcohol harm - including one on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.

Probably not surprising, remember this. www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...

Communities push back against proposed alcohol reforms The government says it wants to reduce red tape, make it easier for businesses to obtain licences, and trust adults to make their own choices.

New alcohol reforms in Aotearoa NZ loosen controls over supply and give alcohol industry its 'wish list' say Alcohol Healthwatch. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Today marks 1,000 days since the Murphy report into online gambling was delivered to government. The report contained 31 recommendations, including a ban on gambling ads and inducements and the creation of a national gambling regulator.

The Albanese Government has not yet responded to the report.

Me, musing aloud about what we (the people) can do in a crisis, while we wait to hear what we (the government of Aotearoa) might do.

Come for the practical examples; stay for the shameless e-bike boosterism/ classic Pulp earworm/ adorable art/ Long Covid solidarity/ Bill & Ted Easter egg, etc.
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Cartoon. Title: WINSTON'S STATE ̶O̶F̶ ̶T̶H̶E̶ ̶N̶A̶T̶I̶O̶N̶ (of the nation is deliberately strikes out) Winston Peters is tied down on a padded bed - for his own protection of course - as he performs an exorcist styled rant, "WOKE AGENDA! WOKE AGENDA! WOKE! AGENDA!!" He's bright green and spitting furiously. Inside the bedroom stands a priest - he's holding a crucifix and a bible asking, "Winston! Is the 'WOKE AGENDA' in the room with us now?"

My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

On Sunday Winston performed his State of the Nation speech... all the greatest hits you could imagine. His obsession with the term '𝗪𝗢𝗞𝗘 𝗔𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗔' really is getting a bit old and tired now...

#NzPol #Caricature #WinstonPeters #Woke #Cartoon

Earth being ‘pushed beyond its limits’ as energy imbalance reaches record high State of the Climate report finds Earth’s energy has moved dangerously out of balance, with oceans absorbing vast majority of trapped heat

Some climate change facts:

2015–2025 = hottest decade observed

🌊 ~90% of excess heat stored in the oceans

Heat gain ≈ 18× global energy use

Rate is accelerating, not stabilizing

This isn’t just warming; it’s a system moving further out of equilibrium

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Iran oil crisis: why NZ's car dependence is now a strategic liability Soaring prices is shine a spotlight on New Zealand's love affair with petrol vehicles.

Coalition Govt's numerous policy decisions embedding petrol & oil dependence in NZ's transport system itemised as fuel crisis looms. "The question now is whether New Zealanders begin to treat their car dependence not as a lifestyle choice but as a strategic liability." www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-...

‘Like lighting a cigarette while trying to quit’: Australia approves new coal seam gas expansion The expansion in Queensland, which has been approved until 2081, will contribute about 120m tonnes of carbon emissions over its lifetime * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A major coal seam gas expansion, contributing about 120m tonnes of carbon emissions over its lifetime, has been approved by the federal government until 2081. The approval enables Australia Pacific LNG to continue to build, operate and eventually decommission new gas infrastructure in Queensland’s Surat and Bowen basins. Continue reading...

‘Like lighting a cigarette while trying to quit’: Australia approves new coal seam gas expansion

We’ve joined ACOSH, QUIT, and the Cancer Council Vic to back Assistant Customs Minister Julian Hill, who at the National Illicit Tobacco and E-cigarette Symposium yesterday questioned why tobacco products were so readily available.

Iran oil crisis: why NZ’s car dependence is now a strategic liability New Zealand generates more than 85% of its electricity from renewable sources, but transport remains almost entirely chained to imported oil.

NZ's transport sector squashes the country's "clean, green" reputation - 99.5% of domestic transport energy comes from fossil fuels.

This nation's collective car brain is an utter disaster "... 815 light vehicles for every 1,000 people" and "road transport emissions have grown 82% since 1990."

If there was ever a moment for Australia’s shift to renewables and EVs, this is it Yes, Australia needs fuel. But the Middle East war also shows the necessity of setting ourselves up for the future

A Clear Air column banging on about some today/tomorrow issues.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The irony of the government being taken to court for cutting climate policies that would have significantly reduced NZ’s oil consumption from cars - our biggest user - and freight, just as the country faces an oil shock is ... difficult to ignore

www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...

How Public Health Lost The Narrative – And How It Can Win It Back - Health Policy Watch Even as storied public health entities are being dismantled, the tobacco industry – still responsible for eight million deaths each year – faces little

👉 Public health hasn’t lost the science — it’s losing the narrative.

A new analysis argues that evidence alone can’t compete in today’s attention economy. Communication must become core public health infrastructure.

INSIDE VIEW: Steve Hamill
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Cartoon. Title: “Hindsight” Four frames, with Health Minister Simeon Brown and Prime Minister Christopher Luxon. First and second frame, sitting at a table, with drinks and having a serious conversation, Brown is saying, “the main take-away from the Covid Inquiry is, when the shit hits the fan… (third frame, both laughing) Stand well back and shout advice” Last frame, walking away, with Brown patting Luxon on the back, saying, “Crikey, that wind is picking up” as a page of a newspaper blows past, with “Cost is Living. War. Fuel” printed on it. Down the bottom of the cartoon it say “To be continued…”

The Covid Inquiry should have been an opportunity to see how we might respond to the next pandemic, or similar large scale emergency, better. For the greatest public good, not political point scoring, with the benefit of hindsight.
My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #PublicHealth #Covid #Fuel

Check out our latest blog on normalising the tobacco endgame: https://bit.ly/3Ot6CZM

Cartoon. Five frames. Title “Taxonomy” First frame a duck is reading a newspaper headline “Levy to Fund Dirty LNG Energy” The duck says, “Tax? Quack” 2nd frame the duck is walking and says, “Tax! Quack”, as it does in the 3rd and fourth frame. In the last frame the duck is on PM Christopher Luxon’s head, saying, “Tax! Quack” and has done a poo. And Christopher Luxon says, “This … is not a duck”

Quick, dirty and expensive. The govt is going to build a $1 billion liquid natural gas (LNG) import terminal, instead of investing in clean energy. And as for the levy…if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck…
My #cartoon today #NZpol #FossilFuels #Climate

Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.

Australia in danger of becoming an ‘artless country’ as enrolments in creative courses collapse Research suggests surging costs under Morrison government’s job-ready graduate scheme and axing of dozens of subjects largely to blame * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Australia risks becoming an “artless country” if it does not address the long-term decline in enrolments in creative courses, with more than 40 courses and degrees axed in less than a decade. New research published in the Australian Journal of Education this week found fewer students in high school and university were choosing to study the creative arts. At the same time, it found, dozens of tertiary courses were being slashed. Continue reading...

Australia in danger of becoming an ‘artless country’ as enrolments in creative courses collapse