This page aims to collect a number of posters and other resources that featured at the Oceania Tobacco Control Conference in Darwin, 7-9 October. More resources will be collected and added over time.

• Oceania Tobacco Control Conference website
• Oceania Tobacco Control Conference Report 2009, Prudence Stone, Director – Smokefree Coalition
• Conference notes: Stephen Vega, Public Health Advisor, Healthy Built Environments, Regional Public Health, Lower Hutt

Posters

Are roll-your-own cigarettes more addictive than factory-made cigarettes?

P Truman1, A Lewis, J H Miller

Smoking is known to be very addictive and the main addictive component of cigarette smoke is nicotine, but could there be more to it than that?

One possible culprit could be the monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitors in cigarette smoke. MAO activities are known to be low in the brains of smokers and, since MAO breaks down dopamine in the brain, this lowered MAO activity should result in prolonged dopamine "reward" signals from nicotine.

We set out to measure the MAO inhibitory activities of preparations from cigarette smoke and to see whether different brands of cigarette varied in their MAO inhibitory activity.

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Smoker misperceptions about menthol cigarettes: national survey data

J Peace, N Wilson, D Weerasekera, R Edwards

The literature is consistent with the notion that mentholated cigarettes ("menthols") are at least as dangerous as their non-mentholated counterparts. There is some evidence that smokers believe menthols are safer than non-mentholated cigarettes.

However, the few studies that have looked at smoker perception of menthols as being more or less harmful is very limited and predominantly focuses on the Afrcan-American population in the US.

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Rich pickings: Extensive information from a survey of discarded cigarette packs

N Wilson, J Peace, R Edwards, G Thomson, J Hoek, J Li, J Stanley

Our aim was to test whether:

1. tobacco companies followed a regulation requiring seven new graphic health warnings to be evenly distributed on cigarette packs
2. fewer packs feturing warnings smokers regarded as more disturbing were distributed.

Other aims were to identify the prevalence of foreign packs in New Zealand and to determins the nature of descriptors on packs.

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Using a train the trainer model in the hospital setting

Kate O'Brien BN RCpN, Smokefree Liaison Nurse, Hawke's Bay District Health Board

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