Dear all, please see the enclosed event invitation. All are welcome!
*London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine*
*Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT*
The Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour and the Centre for
History in Public Health presents:
*A seminar on the ethics and pragmatics of policies *
*towards the use of 'e cigarettes'*
*Tuesday, 24th June 2014, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm*
*Manson Lecture Theatre, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,
Keppel Street*
*___________________________________________________________________*
*Professor Wayne Hall*
(University of Queensland, Australia)
*Should Australia lift its ban on electronic nicotine devices? *
*Reflections on the ethics and implications of Australian policy debates *
Over the past 30 years the daily smoking prevalence among Australian adults
has declined to 16% thanks to: higher tobacco taxes; bans on cigarette
advertising; smoke-free policies in all public spaces, pubs, clubs and
workplaces; and graphic health warnings on cigarette packs. One policy that
has never been part of the mix is tobacco harm reduction, any policy that
aims to reduce the health consequences of smoking by encouraging smokers
who are unable or unwilling to quit to use smokeless tobacco (SLT) and
e-cigarettes or electronic nicotine delivery devices (ENDS). This is
because SLT and ENDS are both banned in Australia. In this paper I examine
the ethical and policy issues raised by the current bans on ENDS sales in
Australia and by various ways in which ENDS and SLT could be sold for
recreational use, if the ban was lifted. I also outline some policy
compromises that would allow Australian smokers to use ENDS while
addressing some of the concerns raised by those who support the current ban
on ENDS.
*Professor Virginia Berridge*
(Centre for History in Public Health, LSHTM)
*Discussant: *E-cigarettes and history
The comment will survey the longer history of 'safer smoking' in the UK and
the US since the 1960s and the redefinition of nicotine since the 1970s. It
analyses the dilemmas for public health in an era of harm reduction.
*ALL WELCOME*
*____________________________________________________________________________________________*
*Professor Wayne Hall* is Director of the Centre for Youth Substance Abuse
Research at the University of Queensland and Professor of Addiction Policy
at the National Addiction Centre, Kings College London. He also has
Visiting Professorial appointments at the London School of Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine and at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre,
University of New South Wales.
*Virginia Berridge* is Professor of History and Director of the Centre for
History in Public Health. Her latest book *Demons. Our changing attitudes
to alcohol, drugs and tobacco* was published by Oxford UP at the end of
2013, and she is now working on a V*ery Short Introduction* to public
health.
--
Landon Kuester
Doctoral Candidate in Medical Anthropology
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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