Learning from tobacco control to tackle gambling industry harms

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Van Schalkwyck, May C I; Hawkins, Benjamin; Cassidy, Rebecca; Collin, Jeff; Gilmore, Anna B and Petticrew, Mark. 2025. Learning from tobacco control to tackle gambling industry harms. British Medical Journal, 388(8457), e082866. ISSN 1759-2151 [Article]

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Official URL: https://www.bmj.com/content/388/bmj-2024-082866

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Failing to learn from the overwhelming evidence that the conduct of the gambling industry and other health harming industries consistently mirrors that of the tobacco industry is causing large scale avoidable harm.

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

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Funding: 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]. This work was 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), a national research network which works to transform health and reduce inequalities through change at the population level.