Snus in Australia: Public Health Considers the Debate

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  • darkwing
    Member
    • Oct 2007
    • 415

    Snus in Australia: Public Health Considers the Debate

    SUPPING WITH THE DEVIL: PROMOTING TOBACCO HARM REDUCTION USING LOW NITROSAMINE SMOKELESS TOBACCO PRODUCTS
    seminar

    [SGDP] Seminar Rooms A & B

    from 13:00, Friday, 11 April 2008
    ends 14:00, Friday, 11 April 2008
    Description
    In Sweden, cigarette smoking among men has declined as snus, a smokeless tobacco product which is low in carcinogenic nitrosamines, has gained in popularity. Epidemiological modelling of the health effects of snus use in Sweden experience suggests that there would be major public health gains if a substantial number of current smokers in other countries could be persuaded to switch to these products. This form of "tobacco harm reduction" is very controversial in the public health community for reasons that will be discussed and evaluated in this paper. These include: in principle objections to tobacco harm reduction from advocates of a policy goal of zero tobacco use; uncertainties about the long term health effects of these products; scepticism about the likely interest in and uptake of these products by existing smokers; concerns that increasing the availability of these products will increase the number of new tobacco users and eventually the number of smokers in the population; and anxieties about how the tobacco industry may use these products to undermine current tobacco control policies.

    Speakers
    Wayne Hall: School of Population Health, University of Queensland Chair: Professor Gunter Schumann
  • darkwing
    Member
    • Oct 2007
    • 415

    #2
    The lecture/seminar is part of the Addictions IRG Lecture series at the King's College Institute of Psychiatry, London.

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    • Zero
      Member
      • May 2006
      • 1522

      #3
      Man, it's a shame that Camberwell is so far from where I work or I might have run off at lunch to go see this. Public transit in south london is not as efficient as it could be, sadly. Looks interesting, mind you.

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      • KarlvB
        Member
        • Feb 2008
        • 681

        #4
        Zero, "not as efficient" is a bit of a euphemism.......I've just checked on the journey planner and it takes 50 mins from Mayfair (one way)

        I wonder if they are releasing the seminar transcripts? Should we mail them and ask?

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