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WORKSHOP – Choosing Tobacco or Health: Where to from here?
SmokeFree Tasmania
10.00 am – 4.30 pm, Friday 25 June 2021
Meeting Room, Launceston City Library, 71 Civic Square, Launceston.
Accessible building – stairs and lift. Wide doors. Accessible toilets.
Zoom teleconferencing will be available.
The program is focussed on supply and uptake reduction, NOT cessation.
Members or employees of the tobacco/vaping industry will not be permitted to attend, including members of front organisations, retailers, hotels, alcohol, or gambling venues.
RSVP & any questions: Len Crocombe, email: l.crocombe@latrobe.edu.au
Speakers (ideas and discussion after each section)
❖ Ivan Dean: Trying to change tobacco legislation in Tasmania.
❖ Jon Berrick: Tobacco control internationally – what is happening in supply reduction ❖ Seana Gall: Children’s (and adolescent) smoking uptake – Mechanisms for reduction. ❖ Nick Towle: The role of the health professions in advocacy for tobacco control.
❖ Kathryn Barnsley: Tobacco industry interference in policy making.
❖ Graeme Wells: The potential economic outcomes in Tasmania of smoking reduction
and supply reduction measures.
❖ Harley Stanton: History of tobacco control as it influences the way ahead.
❖ Sukhwinder Sohal: Vaping – effects on the lungs, exacerbation of COVID19
❖ Susan Waddingham: Young Tasmanian’s perspectives about tobacco uptake”
❖ Adrian Reynolds: Legalisation of Commercial Marijuana – the next threat to health
Workshop Discussion
Choosing tobacco or health: Where to from here?
• Development of a Workshop resolution.
You can find out more about SmokeFree Tasmania here.
