Learning from tobacco control to tackle gambling industry harms.

The use of tobacco industry tactics by the gambling and other health harming industries means governments must act to prevent large scale avoidable harm, argue May van Schalkwyk and colleagues

Keywords

4206 Public Health, 42 Health Sciences, Prevention, Substance Misuse, Tobacco, Lung Cancer, Cancer, Tobacco Smoke and Health, Lung, 3.1 Primary prevention interventions to modify behaviours or promote wellbeing, Cancer, 3 Good Health and Well Being

Journal Title

BMJ

Journal ISSN

0959-8138
1756-1833

Volume Title

388

Publisher

BMJ

Publisher DOI

https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2024-082866

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Sponsorship

Medical Research Council (MR/Y030753/1)
MRC (MC_UU_00006/7)

MvS was funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Doctoral Fellowship (NIHR3000156) and her research was also partially supported by the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration North Thames. MvS, JC, AG and MP has funding through (MvS) and is a co-investigator (JC, AG, MP) in the SPECTRUM consortium which is funded by the UK Prevention Research Partnership (UKPRP), a consortium of UK funders [UKRI Research Councils: Medical Research Council (MRC), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Natural Environment Research Council (NERC); Charities: British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK, Wellcome and The Health Foundation; Government: Scottish Government Chief Scientist Office, Health and Care Research Wales, National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) and Public Health Agency (NI)]. MP (principal investigator) has grant funding from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) “Three Schools” Mental Health Programme. The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care. BH’s position is supported by the Medical Research Council [Grant Number MC_UU_00006/7]. Benjamin Hawkins, Jeff Colin, Anna B Gilmore and Mark Petticrew are supported by UK Research and Innovation funding for ‘Local Health and Global Profits’ (Grant no MR/Y030753/1) which is part of Population Health Improvement UK (PHI UK).

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