May van Schalkwyk
@maizie333
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Public health doctor & Research Fellow at @EdinburghUni researching the commercial determinants of health. Tweets in a personal capacity.
Joined November 2014
Our Postpandemic World: What Will It Take to Build a Better Future for People and Planet?
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RT @DoctorChrisVT: Four industries – tobacco, ultra-processed foods, fossil fuels and alcohol – cause 34% of all deaths. It’s never been mo….
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RT @DoctorChrisVT: A pleasure to speak on @BBCr4today this morning with a former head of the @Foodanddrinkfed, Ian Wright. He made the cla….
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RT @spidermaani: 🚨 New episode of Money Power Health! Thanks to the wonderful @vicky_cann from @corporateeurope who joined me to discuss th….
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RT @spidermaani: Thanks so much to @maizie333 for leading us on this new paper examining firearm-industry funded education campaigns in sch….
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RT @lu_hiam: 📢 Austerity is a public health emergency. Cuts to welfare & public services have worsened health, driving rising mortality & h….
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Huge thanks to @spidermaani for inviting me to discuss this industry strategy & the multiple ways it serves commercial interests. Influence of youth education & child safety programmes by health harming industries remains a major issue & more action is needed.
New episode of Money Power Health! Thanks to the amazing @maizie333 for joining to discuss industry-funded school education programmes and what strategic goals they serve: .Ad-free wherever you get your podcasts #CDoH @GHPUEdinburgh @uoessps @PHIUK_News.
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RT @spidermaani: New episode of Money Power Health! Thanks to the amazing @maizie333 for joining to discuss industry-funded school educatio….
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RT @DoctorChrisVT: The @novonordiskfond - which makes money from obesity drugs - is holding a meeting with food industry funded scientists….
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RT @bmj_latest: The use of tobacco industry tactics by the gambling and other health harming industries means governments must act to preve….
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RT @ProfRCassidy: Gambling research needs to learn from tobacco control. No more excuses. @maizie333 .
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RT @bmj_latest: Health harming industries like gambling have been shown to use similar influencing strategies to the tobacco industry. Str….
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The article is also discussed on an episode of the BMJ podcast @lshtm.@CDRG_LSHTM.@MRC_Epid.@GoldsmithsUoL.@EdinburghUni.@BathTR.@UniofBath.
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@daleyintoeurope, @ProfRCassidy, Jeff Collin, Anna Gilmore, @petticrewmark & I call for urgent action to stop history from repeating itself, and for the gambling industry to be recognised as a harmful industry in need of effective regulation.
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We argue that the failure to learn from the experience of big tobacco has resulted in ineffective regulation of the UK gambling industry, leading to widespread, preventable harm.
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The striking similarities between these two industry statements & what unfolded since are analysed by us in @bmj_latest. We add to the extensive evidence that health-harming industries mimic tobacco industry strategies to promote their business interests
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60 years later, in the face of rising public concern about gambling harms, four major UK gambling operators issued their own letter to the public reassuring them that they were listening to public concern and that they were taking action.
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This marked the beginning of their decades-long campaign of denial, undermining of science, and influencing of policymaking, costing millions of lives in the pursuit of protecting tobacco industry profits.
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2024 marked 70 years since the tobacco industry, faced with mounting evidence of the harm caused by its products, issued their “Frank Statement” to smokers reassuring them that the link between smoking and lung cancer was yet to be proven.
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RT @marco_zenone: When anyone searches for information on cancer treatment options - you shouldn't see ads for scientifically unsupported t….
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RT @JournoJennifer: This was SUCH an interesting article to edit, with lots of thoughtful, nuanced debate and conversation around a tricky….
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