Disadvantaged households have higher rates of smoking, putting pressure on their household budgets, UQ research has found.
10 April 2025
Gaps in Australian tobacco laws are allowing children to be targeted by retailers with some using window toy displays, cartoons and movie characters on their shopfronts, UQ researchers have found.
10 March 2025
A University of Queensland researcher said current Australian laws were failing to prevent young people using nicotine vaping products (NVPs).
10 May 2023A University of Queensland research team has been awarded $5 million from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) to help reduce smoking in Australia.
29 November 2022
Dozens of mid and early-career University of Queensland researchers have been awarded funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC).
21 September 2022
Rising cigarette prices have overtaken health concerns as the biggest motivator for people to cut down or stop smoking.
17 August 2022
University of Queensland researchers have called on governments to quicken the pace towards a smoke-free Australia by increasing their attention on reducing the availability of cigarettes.
15 November 2021
A roadmap to eradicate cigarette smoking in Australia will be the focus of a new University of Queensland and National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)-funded $3 million Centre of Research Excellence.
9 October 2020
University of Queensland health and medical research projects aimed at improving the nation’s healthcare will benefit from a national allocation of more than $483 million announced today.
3 December 2016
The rapid emergence of vaping (e-cigarette use) has led a University of Queensland researcher to seek Australian participants for a large-scale international study.
18 October 2016
A leading Australian substance abuse expert is pleading for moderation in e-cigarettes policies.
5 June 2015The following statement is attributable to Dr Coral Gartner, Leader of the Health and Addictive Behaviour Interventions research group from The University of Queensland’s Centre for Clinical Research.
16 September 2013THE University of Queensland has received $38.1 million in National Health and Medical Research Council Project Grants – one of the largest shares of the funding awarded to institutions across Australia.
18 October 2011
