Archives: Seminars

Flavours in e-cigarettes exert multiple points of influence across a range of health-relevant issues, from youth initiation to discontinuation of tobacco use among adults. Flavours also continue to be an important consideration in regulatory approaches to vaping products. National and subnational jurisdictions around the world have various regulatory authorities to address flavoured e-cigarettes in a… Read more »

Given the known harms of smoking, how do we communicate uncertainty? What health harms are we anticipating in the future from long term use of e-cigarettes? If we remove flavours from e-cigarettes, would there be a net public health gain? Is there a toxicological basis for excluding flavours? What are the health effects of nicotine… Read more »

The Cochrane review of e-cigarettes for quitting smoking was updated this year, and new studies have important implications for certainty of key outcomes. A companion piece, also recently out, investigates biomarkers of potential harm in people who smoke who are given e-cigarettes, but do not successfully quit (dual users). This session will cover key findings… Read more »

It has been 60 years since the ground-breaking report ‘Smoking and Health’ was published by the Royal College of Physicians, at a time when smoking prevalence was close to 70% for men and 40% for women. Whilst that report laid the foundations of tobacco control and great progress has been made in reducing smoking prevalence,… Read more »