Tag: smoking

• No pain, no gain

  I caught a taxi home from the train yesterday. It was a very short trip and one we usually walk but I had Ben’s backpack (he walked straight from the train to the University) in addition to my own. Nevertheless I felt bad about sitting in a car when I could have easily walked. I […]

  Rachel M

  October 17, 2017

  Journal

  exercise, fitness, health, physical activity, smoking

• The denial of science

  Daniel’s recent battle with a Thai monkey got me thinking about vaccinations. He has had all of his rabies vaccinations now but it was quite a detailed process with lots of shots required and at very particular intervals and all of the same type i.e.there are a few options for rabies vaccinations I am told […]

  Rachel M

  February 26, 2014

  Climate change

  agw, AIDS, Climate change, Climate science, denialism, denier, deny, global warming, HIV, immunisation, science, smoking, vaccination, vaccines

• The biggest public health problem of the developed world

  Governments the world over are making leaps and bounds in the fight against smoking. Australia recently banned brand labelling on cigarette packets, the UK is running a campaign called Stoptober next month and there are increasingly fewer and fewer public spaces in which a smoker can light-up. But is smoking really the biggest public health […]

  Rachel M

  September 8, 2012

  Auckland, Urban sprawl

  Auckland, exercise, physical inactivity, smoking, urban sprawl