Smoke signals : : selected writing / / Simon Chapman.

• VerfasserIn: Chapman, Simon,
• Place / Publishing House: Sydney : : Sydney University Press ; :, Darlington Press,, 2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 385 pages)

Smoke Signals gathers 71 of Professor Simon Chapman’s authoritative, acerbic and often heretical essays from across his 40-year career. They cover major developments and debates in tobacco control, public health ethics, cancer screening, gun control, and panics about low risk agents such as wi-fi, mobile phone towers and wind turbines. This collection is an essential guide to many key debates in contemporary public health. It will be invaluable to public health students and practitioners, and provides compelling, entertaining reading for anyone interested in health policy.

Table of Contents

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 -- 6 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?