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#WNTD Blog: Tobacco and Mental Health - Untangling the relationship and identifying opportunities to progress policy

Institute of Public Health

IPH Public Health Development Officers, Dr Joanna Purdy and Dr Ciara Reynolds, were among the many delegates to present at the April conference. The report was developed for the Department of Health in Northern Ireland, as part of their review of the Ten Year Tobacco Control Strategy for Northern Ireland (2012-2022).

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Picking our battles: public health in public

Public Healthy

It was to be about my worries that we were losing the battle for ‘hearts and minds’ on what public health is, and should be, and how we are occasionally our own worst enemies. So, I started writing again, before the announcement that Public Health England (PHE) will be subsumed into a ‘new’ National Institute for Health Protection.

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#WNTD Blog: Gaslighting, greenwashing and personal responsibility – old and new tropes in tobacco industry interference

Institute of Public Health

It is evident in tobacco industry efforts to influence how their products are regulated. These are well-worn and highly effective tactics from the tobacco industry ‘ corporate playbook’. They seek to act on the thoughts and confidence of decision-makers to delay, derail, or delegitimise the regulation of tobacco products.