The new Centre for Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame (CREATE) has the aim of phasing out smoking for good.
The CREATE Investigator Team is a collaboration between UQ, The University of Newcastle, The University of Melbourne, Australian National University, Queensland University of Technology, Cancer Council Victoria, University of New South Wales, Menzies School of Health Research, The University of Otago, The University of Auckland and The University of Waterloo.
Dr Gary Chan, NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow at the UQ National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research, is the Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences representative in the CREATE Investigator Team.
Centre Director Associate Professor Coral Gartner said CREATE’s goal is to determine the optimal mix of strategies that will help Australia become a smoke-free nation and produce a roadmap outlining how to implement these strategies.
CREATE in the media
Seven News: Cigarettes on prescription flagged as part of bold new anti-smoking plan
Smokers could be made to buy cigarettes with a prescription or at a pharmacy, in a bold new anti-smoking plan aiming to phase out smoking in Australia.
The ambitious plan to stub out cigarettes for good is being explored by a new centre at The University of Queensland.
The Director for the Centre for Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame (CREATE), Associate Professor Coral Gartner, said the centre’s goal would help Australia become a smoke-free nation.
Nine News: Radical plan to make Australia smoking-free says prescription cigarette sales should be considered
A bold plan to end smoking in Australia has flagged prescription cigarette sales among measures aimed at slashing tobacco usage.
The University of Queensland study said Australia's smoking prevalence stands at just under 15 per cent, but a detailed road map is needed to reduce that figure to zero.
Proposals by the Centre for Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame (CREATE) include reducing the number of tobacco retailers and restricting sales to particular outlets such as pharmacies.
Daily Mail: Smokers could be forced to buy cigarettes from pharmacies or apply for a prescription
Smokers could be forced to get their cigarettes from pharmacies using a prescription under a new plan from anti smoking advocates.
The hardline proposal is part of a university's plan to end smoking forever, and includes cutting off cigarette sales permanently to anyone born after a certain date.
Associate Professor Coral Gartner, from The University of Queensland's Centre for Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame (CREATE), says smoking may never be outlawed but there must be an 'endgame' goal to permanently reduce the use of tobacco which causes nearly 'one in seven deaths' in Australia and is responsible for 'nine percent of the disease burden'.
News.com.au: Wild new plan to eradicate smoking in Australia entirely
Smokers could be made to buy cigarettes with a prescription or at a pharmacy, in an ambitious new plan to wipe out smoking in Australia almost entirely.
Durry-addicts are a dying breed in more ways that one these days as only about 15 per cent of Australians — 2.3 million of us — committing to the habit which causes one in seven of the nation’s deaths.
The Australian government has a goal of reducing smoking prevalence to 10 per cent by 2025, but a new centre at the University of Queensland wants to go further.
It wants to see Australia wean itself off tobacco for good — in what it calls an “Endgame” — and it has now set out a road map over the next five years to achieve it.
The Centre for Research Excellence (CREATE) says one of the key issues it will look at is cigarette supply.
Yahoo News: Radical proposal for doctor's script to buy cigarettes
A radical plan put forward by a research group trying to rid the country of smoking proposes having Australians obtain a doctor’s script to buy cigarettes.
The path to a smoke-free Australia is being researched by a newly-created The University of Queensland research group – the Centre for Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame (CREATE).
The team is made up of researchers from 11 institutions across the world, including New Zealand and Canada.
The centre’s director Associate Professor Coral Gartner said in a press release published on Friday their goal was ambitious, but clear.
“Australia’s smoking prevalence is just under 15 per cent, but we will need a well-designed endgame strategy if we are to achieve close to zero smoking,” she said.
