Although social media platforms prohibit nicotine product listings, significant loopholes exist such that people are still able to purchase these products. We proposed several ways to combat covert e-cig marketing on social media platforms. ⬇️ 🔗 harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/counter/pdf/10…

Prof Professor Coral Gartner delivering her opening address at the SRNT Oceania conference today. Looking forward to an exciting day of presentations

Thank you to all presenters and attendees who joined us last week for the 2024 SRNT-Oceania Conference SRNT Oceania and the CRE Annual Symposium to discuss the latest #TobaccoControl research and endgame strategies, and special thanks to all our amazing helpers! 🙏photo: Geoffrey Fong

Young Australians are being exposed to an alcohol advertisement on social media every 2 minutes and 43 seconds on average, according to research from #UQ's NCYSUR, UQ. 🔗brnw.ch/21wKwxL 📸 Adobe

While a lot of profit stands to be made from alcohol and liquor licensing fees, Brienna Rutherford + that Gary Chung Kai Chan (@UQ_news) write that we can’t ignore the harm it poses to young people. theconversation.com/young-people-m…

Specialist vape store audit reveals poor compliance with new e-cigarette regulations pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38843551/

The APSAD Melbourne Symposium program has been released and speakers announced. There's still time to register before 26 July. ➡️ow.ly/j3nn50Sv8I3

💥Hot off the press💥 Proud to see this review being published in Addiction Journal, led by Dr Ara Cho. This review has examined the relationship between tobacco tax increases and price-minimising tobacco purchasing behaviours. 🔗onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11… NHMRC CRE on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame

Our latest paper explored how tobacco tax increases affect consumers' price-minimizing behaviours.💵 🔗lnkd.in/ga8TdfhG Special thanks to my supervisors, Professor Coral Gartner and Gary Chan, and co-authors, Carmen Lim and Tianze Sun 孙天则, for their invaluable support! NHMRC CRE on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame

Brilliant presentation from Dr Cheneal Puljevic at the A.P.S.A.D Melbourne symposium on how prevalent is illicit tobacco and how best to regulate it

Prof Wayne Hall on ecigarette promotion, regulation, and use in Australia and the shortcomings of anti-vaping campaigns at A.P.S.A.D Melbourne Symposium

Dr Benjamin Riordan with an entertaining presentation on influencers and online marketing of alcohol, with a lot of Taylor Swift - 3.2% of posts mentioned alcohol, with 17.7% of alcohol related posts referencing the brand CAPRAustralia A.P.S.A.D #APSADSymp24

Join us on 30 August, 2-3 AEST on a talk on Cannabis Legalization in Germany. In this presentation, Prof Eva Hoch will reflect on the current opportunities and risks of the new cannabis laws in Germany & the immediate impact of legalization. RSVP using QR code below 👇

Our new commentary in Nicotine and Tobacco Research Journal highlights the multichannel marketing of oral nicotine pouches. While less harmful than cigarettes, addiction risks for youth remain. Harry Tattan-Birch, PhD ✮⋆˙ doi.org/10.1093/ntr/nt…

New study on the impact of #tobacco tax increases on 💰cost-minimising behaviours and subsequent #SmokingCessation 🚭 in Australia: tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/… Ara Cho Professor Coral Gartner Gary Chan

3 RCTs: Decreases in cigarettes smoked daily, resulting from smoking cigarettes with reduced nicotine content, were larger when adults from at-risk populations had access to e-cigarettes in their preferred flavors ja.ma/3XelRXg

🚨 New Study Alert 🚨 ⚠️ Seeing tobacco (incl. vaping) content on social media from influencers & celebrities can increase the risk of trying it😳🚬 📳If you're seeing these content on a near-daily basis, it increases your vulnerability to tobacco use 🔗sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

#UQ research has found young people exposed to social media posts by celebrities & influencers who endorse nicotine products are more susceptible to smoking or vaping. 🔗https://thttps://brnw.ch/21wMtaM Health at UQ Carmen Lim

Commentary - Australia needs to better regulate alcohol marketing in films Emmanuel Kuntsche Paula O'Brien Dan Anderson-Luxford Maree Patsouras Benjamin Riordan CAPRAustralia La Trobe University Melbourne Law School #alcohol onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/da…

✮ exciting research at #ISBRA2024! stop by posters 08, 12, 13 & 22 to see Tesfa M Yimer's work on cannabis/tobacco use and dealcoholised wine and Ben Johnson's studies on prescription stimulants on TikTok! ｡°