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Simon Chapman is a vociferous opponent of smoking, who currently resides in Australia.
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== Positions held ==
 
== Positions held ==
 
* 1992 - 1997 - Deputy editor of the [[British Medical Journal Group|BMJ]]'s [[Tobacco_Control_(BMJ)|Tobacco Control]]<ref name="sydney">http://sydney.edu.au/medicine/people/academics/profiles/simonchapman.php</ref>
 
* 1992 - 1997 - Deputy editor of the [[British Medical Journal Group|BMJ]]'s [[Tobacco_Control_(BMJ)|Tobacco Control]]<ref name="sydney">http://sydney.edu.au/medicine/people/academics/profiles/simonchapman.php</ref>

Latest revision as of 14:37, 17 June 2014

Simon Chapman is a vociferous opponent of smoking, who currently resides in Australia.


Positions held


Qualifications

Views

Sunbeds

Since 'no-one knows the dangers of sunbeds, and hasn't for years,' Mr Chapman suggested that the sale of second-hand sunbeds should be outlawed[6]

A professor of public health at the University of Sydney, Simon Chapman, said it would be a public service for state governments to buy the machines at the low market price and destroy them, or to outlaw reselling them.

Conflicts of interest

In 1995, Mr Chapman tried to get a paper that concluded that passive smoking didn't cause lung cancer doctored to show that passive smoking did cause lung cancer.

References