Richard Edwards
@ProfEdwardsNZ
Public health researcher working to achieve Smokefree Aotearoa/New Zealand. Personal views expressed, reposts may not be endorsements. He/him.
Jeffrey G. Willett and Maher Karam-Hage put forward a very thoughtfully argued endgame strategy for tobacco smoking in the United States. healthaffairs.org/content/forefr…
Kia ora. Currently on a sick day due to COVID. I thought I would use the time productively & begin migrating to bsky.social in response to recent events with X/Musk/US Election. New handle is @predwards.bsky.social Hopefully, see you there.
John Iaonnidis and collaborators just published a preprint estimating lives saved all over the world from the vaccine rollouts They estimated 2.533 million deaths were averted, 82% among people vaccinated before any infection (thus exposing their immune system to the sarscov2…
Portugal shut down their last remaining coal fired power plant and is fostering a renewable energy revolution. They could be completely renewable by 2040 if not sooner. It can be done. We have the solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #renewables #go100re
Difficult to come to any other conclusion than Govt policy has torpedoed the EV and PHEV market in NZ. newsroom.co.nz/2024/11/06/new…
Paris fighting pollution and improving public health. -No diesel cars from 2024 -100% #cleanenergy buses by 2025 -No petrol cars from 2030 -improving bike and pedestrian infrastructure. We have the solutions, implement them. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #GreenNewDeal
Could @nzherald please disclose that tobacco companies are members of @nzinitiative when @EricCrampton writes about tobacco nzherald.co.nz/business/eric-…
New paper estimates the number of 18-25s in the UK taking up smoking each year, at a national, regional, and local level. UK: 125,700 per year England: 105,700 Scotland: 11,500 Wales: 6,500 Northern Ireland: 3,800 academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-ar…
This thread seems relevant given today's revealations about the highly critical comments from a senior Ministry of Health official about the 'independent advice' Minister Costello cited to support the HTP excise tax cut.
🧵1/ Casey Costello released today the 'independent advice' she said she had received & which she used to justify cutting HTP excise tax & ignore the Ministry of Health's recommendation not to do so. rnz.co.nz/news/political…
THIS IS HUGE. Paris City Hall has announced that starting on Monday, Paris will limit (not ban) car traffic in the city centre, as cities like Ghent have done. They’re creating a limited traffic zone (ZTL) about 2 sq miles in size, to clean the air & create more space for people.
Rod Emmerson’s cartoons: Week of October 28 - November 3 nzherald.co.nz/nz/rod-emmerso…
Is a swastika really less anti-social than a gang patch? My #cartoon today #nzpol
This must be tweeted every Halloween. I don’t make the rules
Attention, national media. I was told this phrase is a globe-shattering transgression. I await your breathless tweets.
“It’s the people that surround her, they’re scum and they want to take down our country. They are absolute garbage.” - Donald Trump, 9/7/24
This is a seriously powerful speech, worth watching.
.@ananavarro reacts to Trump rally comedian calling Puerto Rico "island of garbage": "Today, we are all in this together." "On November 5, I want you to vote for your heritage and your traditions and your identity. I want you to vote with dignity and self-respect."