As the U.S. election is underway and we wait to hear if there is a new Administration / Congressional leadership, this session will explore the material implications for tobacco control and public health policies that would result. With election results for both branches of government likely to remain in flux for weeks, there is one… Read more »
Archives: Seminars
What if we were serious about making smoking obsolete?
Several countries have proposed ‘smokefree targets’, including New Zealand and Ireland, which set their goals for 2025. They are certain to fail. England has recently made a commitment “to make smoked tobacco obsolete by 2030”. Someone now has to fill in the blanks: what should be done to bring this about? Imagine if everyone involved… Read more »
FCTC-MPOWER plus THR
THE WHO FCTC and the associated MPOWER package of interventions provide a comprehensive approach to tobacco control including, at least in theory, tobacco harm reduction. Implementation of these interventions has been limited particularly for the most effective measures such as excise tax increases and comprehensive bans on advertising and sponsorship. Even in countries which have… Read more »
Why the TPD needs to be strengthened
The EU Tobacco Products Directive was a milestone in tobacco control, covering everything from tracking and tracing of tobacco products to banning flavours in cigarettes, large pictorial health warnings on cigarette packs to regulation of e-cigarettes. But the in the years since the TPD came into force in May 2016 it has become clear that… Read more »
Welcome from the Chair
Closing remarks
Panel discussion and Live Q&A
An update on Australia’s ban on sales of e-Cigarettes:
Australia has effectively banned the sale of electronic nicotine delivery devices (ENDS) by using poisons regulations that only allow access to ENDS products demonstrated in randomized control trials to improve smoking cessation. No such products are available. Smokers can, with difficulty, import nicotine if they have a prescription, but few doctors are prepared to prescribe… Read more »
Transitioning Dual Users off Combustible Cigarettes: Maximizing Complete Switching
This presentation will highlight data from an observational study of adult dual cigarette and e-cigarette users, focusing on multi-level factors that might enhance complete switching to e-cigarette use and implications for research and intervention designs. Opportunities for enhancing switching during the time of COVID-19 will be discussed. Click here to view powerpoint presentation
Taking the measure of youth addiction to nicotine in the USA
The starting point for US policy towards e-cigarettes has been and continues to be the notion of an emerging epidemic of youth addiction to nicotine. This epidemic is taken to be a matter of fact, and is evidenced by the recent rapid increase in past 30 day e-cigarette use in high school students, peaking at… Read more »
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