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Plain packaging will hit sales hard, and big tobacco is worried
So, the move to cigarette plain packaging will do nothing to reduce the rate of smoking, but it will be a pain in the proverbial for shopkeepers. I'm...
Let the euthanasia debate rage
Australian Greens leader Bob Brown will use the first extended private members time in the new parliament to re-introduce a bill to extend territory...
Family's pain multiplied at pointlessly lingering death
My first patient for the day is Mrs East. She is 97, a former ballerina who at 92 still caught the train to drop into the casino when she felt in the...
Fat. Obese. Who cares? We're too obsessed by size
When neo-puritans imply that slimness equates to virtue, we're on dangerous ground. Obese. As a euphemism, it is useless. That big round "o...
Life balance still not working
Almost 10 years after then prime minister John Howard delivered his ''barbecue stopper'' line about the challenge of balancing work and family life,...
It's enough to drive you to drink
Cracking down on tobacco is like cracking down on devil worship. It's easy to put the boot into something that antisocial without apology. Smoking...
Turn up the heat on solariums
After the very public death of 26-year-old solarium customer Clare Oliver from melanoma in September 2007, health authorities introduced mandatory...
The proof of the pudding
The shelves of every supermarket are packed with probiotic yogurts that can supposedly ease constipation and fend off infections, butter substitutes...
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