Dr David Outridge (FAChAM) - University of Queensland
- Pippa Starr
- Jul 18, 2023
- 1 min read
Updated: Apr 27
Dr David Outridge is a registered Australian General Practitioner with 30 years’ experience in general practice and an interest in addiction medicine for over 20 years.
18 July 2023
29 May 2023 - Letter To Mark Butler
3 August 2017 - Vaporised Nicotine Products Bill Submission
The reason vapourized nicotine should be widely available as a consumer product: The only public health solution to smoking-induced severe lung disease is prevention; medical treatments are relatively ineffective and expensive, or are unavailable to most (as in lung transplantation). Unfortunately smoking cessation, whilst a highly desirable goal, either comes too late or is too difficult to achieve for many smokers. Lung cancer and cardiovascular disease are other equally dreadful diseases which also kill, often at a younger age. Reducing the harms of nicotine addiction is a legitimate form of public health policy. There is sufficient evidence to be certain that vapourized nicotine inhalation is vastly safer than tobacco smoking for all the conditions which it is proven to cause."
Full submission:
