Sentences with phrase «health lobby»

Raising the ethanol cap was opposed by the oil industry, the environmental lobby, and the public health lobby.

When mental health campaigners have asked him to stop using these terms, he has dismissed them as being part of «the mental health lobby».

Andrea Miller with the National Institute for Reproductive Health lobbied for the law for years in her former role with NARAL New York.

21 June 2017 MEDIA RELEASE HEALTH LOBBY SHOULD GET SERIOUS ABOUT ADDRESSING OBESITY Australian Beverages Council CEO Geoff Parker today dismissed a study announced by the Cancer Council claiming that a sugar tax would boost the economy and reduce obesity rates.

At 10:30 a.m., LG Kathy Hochul addresses the National Institute for Reproductive Health lobby day, Empire State Plaza, Meeting Room 5, Albany.

As the Times points out, many health lobbies support national minimum pricing, claiming that it would save lives, while Andrew Lansley opposes the move, arguing that it would hit poorer people, and isn't necessarily the best way of reducing demand.

Clearly, rural and remote communities have much to gain (including better health and wellbeing) if the influential rural health lobby could find its way to join up with wider advocacy campaigns addressing poverty and inequitable policies across the board.

It is the moment the Conservative party finally capitulated to the joyless, unscientific nonsense of the public health lobby.

The State Government and the health lobby are on a collision course over an urgent review of doctors» acceptance of gifts and travel from pharmaceutical and equipment suppliers.

The health lobby moved onto the front foot in the battle to ban smoking in cars with children today, with over 500 health professionals demanding MPs pass the legislation.

But I still feel part of the club and I am most certainly on the side of my fellow smokers against the drab puritanism of the health lobby.

He added: «Politicians must look at the evidence and ignore the High Priests of the Nanny State in the public health lobby, and abolish the Sugar Tax before it is too late.»