What is a Mature Smoking Product Retail Licensing Scheme-A Commentary From Tasmania of Policy and Practice.

By 2025, all Australian jurisdictions will have a licensing scheme to manage the supply of tobacco. However, there is no national smoking product licensing framework to drive national consistency and enhance tobacco control. There are few published examples of the operation and impact of this tobacco control legislation.

Tobacco retail availability and smoking-A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Issues: Health policy makers worldwide have adopted evidence-based legislation, largely directed at consumers, to reduce tobacco-related harm. It is suggested that limiting supply by decreasing retail availability can also reduce cigarette smoking. To inform policy makers this systematic literature review assesses whether reducing availability is associated with smoking behaviours.

Towards tobacco-free retailers: feasibility of an intervention encouraging retailers to stop selling tobacco in Tasmania.

Background: Despite calls for greater emphasis on tobacco supply reduction strategies, limited evidence of interventions (regulatory and non-regulatory) to reduce tobacco retailer numbers exists. This study investigated the feasibility of a real-world, non-regulatory intervention to encourage low volume tobacco retailers to stop selling, in a jurisdiction with a tobacco retailer licensing system.

Intervention: Between December 2018 and 2019, low volume tobacco retailers (n=164) were exposed to multiple intervention elements (eg, postcard and letter mail-out, onsite visit) focused on the business benefits of stopping selling, in the lead up to their tobacco licence expiry date.

Why Tasmanian retailers stop selling tobacco and implications for tobacco control.

Introduction: The retail availability of tobacco is at odds with the health harms associated with tobacco smoking and undermines tobacco control efforts. Evidence suggests ease of access to tobacco through retail outlets contributes to smoking prevalence.

Objective: This study aimed to understand why retailers stop selling tobacco and explore possible implications for tobacco control.

The retail availability of tobacco in Tasmania: evidence for a socio-economic and geographical gradient.

Objectives: To describe the retail availability of tobacco and to examine the association between tobacco outlet density and area-level remoteness and socio-economic status classification in Tasmania.

Design: Ecological cross-sectional study; analysis of tobacco retail outlet data collected by the Department of Health and Human Services (Tasmania) according to area-level (Statistical Areas Level 2) remoteness (defined by the Remoteness Structure of the Australian Statistical Geographical Standard) and socio-economic status (defined by the 2011 Australian Bureau of Statistics Index of Relative Socioeconomic Advantage and Disadvantage).

Main Outcome Measure: Tobacco retail outlet density per 1000 residents.

A risk stratification approach to assessing for true cases of measles in a highly vaccinated population.

Objective: In Australia, the notification rate for measles fluctuates greatly between baseline and outbreak periods. We aimed to identify characteristics of notified cases that allow risk stratification in order to improve the efficiency of the public health response in an outbreak setting.

Methods: Retrospective descriptive case series for all measles notifications made to the Victorian Government Department of Health between 1 August and 30 September 2013.