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SUMMARY:Exploring possible futures of Tobacco Control in Australia: High t
 ech\, low tech and no tech - Prof. Wayne Hall\, Deputy Director (Policy) U
 Q Centre for Clinical Research |The University of Queensland
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DTEND:20120504T130000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Simon Richard White
DESCRIPTION:In Australia in 2010 around 17% of adults still smoked cigaret
 tes. In this paper we report work that we have done over the past 8 years 
 assessing three types of strategies (hi\, low and no tech) for reducing sm
 oking prevalence under 10% by 2020 (a target recently set by the Australia
 n government). The high tech strategies include: improving smoking cessati
 on by screening smokers for polymorphisms that predict responses to pharma
 cological treatments\; vaccinating smokers against the effects of nicotine
 \; attempting to prevent nicotine dependence by screening the population f
 or genetic susceptibility to nicotine dependence and vaccinating non-smoki
 ng children against the effects of nicotine. The low technology approach i
 s nicotine harm reduction: encouraging smokers who are unable or unwilling
  to quit to switch to using non-smoked forms of tobacco such as pharmaceut
 ical nicotine and low nitrosamine oral tobacco products. Among the leading
  no technology options is a de facto prohibition of smoked tobacco (e.g. b
 y legislating to progressively reduce the nicotine content of cigarettes t
 o zero over a decade).  We compare the likely health impacts of these stra
 tegies and discuss the ethical and public policy implications that they ra
 ise.
LOCATION:Large Seminar Room\, 1st Floor\, Institute of Public Health\, Uni
 versity Forvie Site\, Robinson Way\, Cambridge
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