Health modelling indicates that phasing out the commercial supply of tobacco products would rapidly reduce smoking rates and make substantial improvements to equity. Economic modelling shows the impact on government revenue would be relatively modest.

Andrew Perusco, PhD Candidate at the ANU, will discuss the rationale for the focus of his research, and the methods he is employing to analyse tobacco control policy discourse. He will discuss some early findings and reflect on issues such as, the value of the socioecological model of addiction versus the biological model, and whether tobacco endgame policies are coherent with policy reforms on illicit drug use.

There’ll be time for questions/discussion.

For background on some of the topics covered in the seminar, check out this article in the Riot Act.

Any persons affiliated with tobacco or vaping entities (current, in the past, or have future plans), tobacco or vaping lobbyists, either professionally or on a personal basis, are ineligible to attend this event.