Australia politics live: new rules for cosmetic procedures industry; AMA criticises calls to lower tobacco excise

Ahpra cracks down on misleading ads and says practitioners need more training. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastCalls to reduce the tobacco excise as a way to tackle the illegal tobacco industry are a “simplistic, misguided and ineffective solution”, Australia’s peak medical body says.The president of the Australian Medical Association, Dr Danielle McMullen said there had been a “worrying increase in calls to reduce tobacco excise, with the idea, not surprisingly, backed by big tobacco.”There’s absolutely no evidence to support the idea that reducing excise will impact illegal tobacco — in fact the evidence says the opposite, with jurisdictions that have reduced the excise seeing a horrible combination of increased smoking rates and no tangible impact on the illegal tobacco trade. Continue reading...

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