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Professor Sir Richard Peto will join members of the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences Oxford Tobacco Addiction Group (OxTAG) for an engaging lecture and discussion on the evolving landscape of tobacco use and cessation. Professor Sir Aziz Sheikh, Head of NDPCHS, will be chairing the lecture and closing remarks will be given by Professor Prabhat Jha, Head of the Nuffield Department of Population Health.
Professor Sir Richard Peto is one of the world’s leading epidemiologists. His research on the current effects of smoking in various populations and his predictions of the future worldwide health effects of current smoking patterns have clarified the importance of smoking as a cause of premature death. This has influenced national policies and contributed to the large decreases in tobacco-attributed mortality in recent decades in some, though not all, major countries.
The OxTAG session will explore new evidence from the department on e-cigarettes for quitting smoking and interventions for stopping vaping, early findings from the TRIDENT programme in mental health settings, and the team’s research stream focused on reducing health inequalities caused by smoking.
