Introduction
1 Never say die?
2 The paradox of prevention
3 The commodification of prevention
4 A testing time for prostate
5 Prostate screening not worth it
6 Why do doctors keep silent about their own prostate cancer decisions?
7 How famous faces muddle the message on cancer
8 Patient consent in spectator surgery not the only consideration
9 Does celebrity involvement in public health campaigns deliver long-term benefit? Yes
10 A nation of flashers should show some modesty
11 A long, winding road to end the carnage
12 Drink and drive? Not the publican’s problem
13 The AIDS myth that will not die
14 A shattering of glass in Tasmania
15 Gun lobby on shaky ground
16 Now, about those guns . . .
17 150 ways (and counting) that the nanny state is good for us
18 Tardis travelling into David Leyonhjelm’s post-nanny state dystopia
19 Torture by omission
20 It’s the government’s call over phone tower debate
21 No, we’re not all being pickled in deadly radiation from smartphones and wi-fi
22 Wind turbine sickness prevented by the money drug
23 Wind turbine syndrome: a classic “communicated” disease
24 Questions a prominent wind farm critic needs to answer
25 Chilean earthquakes in Australia and other wacky myths from wind farm opponents
26 Let’s appoint a judge to investigate bizarre wind farm health claims
27 Tragedy puts values at threat
28 Charities to be seen but no longer heard?
29 Reflections on a 38-year career in public health advocacy: ten pieces of advice to early-career researchers and advocates
30 Unravelling gossamer with boxing gloves: problems in explaining the decline in smoking
31 The banality of tobacco deaths
32 Smokers spend, then pay with their lives
33 Death of a Fat Lady
34 Stop-smoking clinics: a case for their abandonment
35 The inverse impact law of smoking cessation
36 Quitting unassisted: the 50-year neglect of a major health phenomenon
37 Is it time to stop subsidising nicotine replacement therapies?
38 The ethics of the cash register: taking tobacco industry research dollars
39 Smoke screen
40 It’s smokers, better still those trying to quit, who should benefit
41 Corporate responsibility is fast becoming a smoke-free zone
42 The problem with selling a lethal product: you just can’t get the staff
43 International tobacco control should repudiate Jekyll and Hyde health philanthropy
44 When will the tobacco industry apologise for its galactic harms?
45 Smoking bastions set to crumble
46 Why even “wowsers” argue about smoke bans
47 How Santa and the Tooth Fairy collaborated to allow smoking at casino
48 Is a smoking ban in UK parks and outdoor spaces a good idea?
49 Are today’s smokers really more “hardened”?
50 Light cigarettes – deadly despite the name
51 Matter of smoke and hire
52 Butt clean-up campaigns: wolves in sheep’s clothing?
53 Silver screen lights up with a deadly hidden message
54 What should be done about smoking in movies?
55 Four arguments against the adult-rating of movies with smoking scenes
56 Factoids and legal bollocks in the war against plain packaging
57 The slow-burn, devastating impact of tobacco plain packaging
58 Pleased as Punch: interview with the tobacco industry
59 The case for a smoker’s licence
60 E-cigarettes: the best and the worst case scenarios for public health
61 Spotless leopards? Decoding hype on e-cigarettes
62 Ten myths about smoking that will not die
63 Ten more myths about smoking that will not die
64 Letters to editors
65 Bertrand Russell’s Why I am not a Christian: a book that changed me
66 Why do researchers donate their time and money to help private conference organisers make big bucks?
67 Why I block trolls on Twitter
68 Publishing horror stories: time to euthanase paper-based journals?
69 My mother’s death
70 Dying with dignity with dementia
71 Can academics ever retire?
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