Smoking ban. From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Afghan women are responding to the Taliban's ban on women speaking in public by launching a campaign and singing out loudly.

When you try to troll a candidate who is a scientist, be prepared for a science lesson. 🤷‍♀️

Pertinent read for today from '22: "[banning cigarette sales would] liberate humanity from the world's most lethal consumer product, a product which has caused untold human suffering and which most users would rather do without" tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/31/2/3… #tobaccobill #smokingban

The Economist just published a deeply-researched story about car bloat, and it's very, very damning: "For every life that the heaviest 1% of SUVs and trucks save, there are more than a dozen lives lost in other vehicles." Well worth your time: economist.com/interactive/un…

We are shaped by our surroundings In a new study at a French university, where the availability of veg options was doubled, only 6% of customers noticed the menu change, yet veg meal choices increased by 96% 4-week experiment of 37,299 main meal choices: ijbnpa.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

More than half of the experts on the UK government’s nutrition advisory panel have links to the food industry, reveals #BMJInvestigation. At least 11 of the 17 members have conflicts of interest with the likes of Nestle, Tate and Lyle, and Unilever bmj.com/content/386/bm…

Chris Snowdon from Institute of Economic Affairs was put straight by our Director @willprochaska on BBC Sunday Morning Live today.

👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽When you quit smoking👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Great explanation from Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈 of the commercial determinants of health. Obesity - and many other, largely avoidable, diseases - is not a result of individual choice. Instead it is driven by industry influence. #CDOH

Deeply concerning & disappointing that Smashed, a school-based programme funded by multinational alcoholic beverage company Diageo, is being allowed to tour schools in Wales ⬇️ southwalesargus.co.uk/news/24594287.…

A long-time senior Israeli government official and Netanyahu/Liduk adviser, Jordana Cutler, is now the chief of Facebook's US censorship unit on Israel and Palestine. She repeatedly and aggressively uses that position to demand censorship of Israel critics:

fucked up.

Left here for now, finally set up my profile on Bluesky. For #publichealth and #commercialdeterminants adventures see you on the other side! 👇🏻 bsky.app/profile/stefan…

baby formula sinking to the bottom of the ocean in international waters 60 nautical miles from the site of mass starvation. this shames the world

Name me one other country on earth - just one - who could kidnap 497 people from 46 countries & get away with it