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The main aim of the Life Support community is to help ourselves and each other with evidence-based knowledge. A second aim is having a group that will be sympathetic to people’s questions and situations, if these arise, without trespassing on privacy. It is not meant to be an Agony Aunt column.

Topics can include:

ways to look after health at different stages of life
family interactions, triumphs and challenges
people who are on their own and their triumphs and challenges
children and education
technology in people’s lives: effects, coping and solutions
money, housing, and work issues
identity, e.g. race, gender and sexuality
where to find support and what alternatives there might be

The Life Support community takes the form of:

plain, useful information about topics and where to find practical help
sharing articles about health and social issues and how they affect people personally
sharing experiences or questions and asking others to respond with suggestions or examples from their lived experience

It will always be a work in progress depending on what people bring to the community, so don’t be shy. If we have a genuine interest or question and we are respectful we can give this experiment a whirl.

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It kills two-thirds of lifetime users – so why is smoking cool again? (www.theguardian.com)

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Social trends, public policy and advertising have placed smoking at the centre of mainstream culture before, but public policy has also helped push it back to the fringes too.

McElhinney is hopeful Australia can see a similar change again, but she knows it will be a difficult fight. She suggests that rather than simply focusing on how bad smoking is for our bodies, public health campaigns can be used to educate how “tobacco companies manipulate us through insidiously inserting themselves into culture”. The assumption being: if you can spot the tricks you might be less likely to fall for them.

Now taking on big tobacco isn’t as simple as banning glossy print ads, she says. “Over the past decade, subtle culture-led advertising has become best in class.

“As big tobacco continues to innovate and shapeshift, it’s hard for consumers and public health advocates to keep up.”

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