Our latest podcast episode describes the “endgame” for commercial tobacco control toward a tobacco-free future. Learn about possible strategies and examples of places that are already implementing endgame policies.
Endgame strategies have been defined as “initiatives designed to change/eliminate permanently the structural, political, and social dynamics that sustain the tobacco epidemic, in order to end it within a specific time,” and moving towards the endgame means, “moving beyond tobacco control (which assumes the continued presence of tobacco as a common, widely-available ordinary consumer product) toward a tobacco-free future wherein commercial tobacco products would be phased out or their use and availability significantly restricted.”
This episode describes what the “endgame” means for commercial tobacco control, the range of strategies it could involve, how point-of-sale policies can play a critical role in it, and highlights some examples of places that are already implementing endgame policies.
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Download the episode transcript here
Sources and Resources:
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- Endgame Report, Cancer Research UK
- Project Sunset, Action on Smoking & Health
- An argument for phasing out cigarettes sales, Tobacco Control
- Not for Sale: State Authority to End Cigarette Sales, Mitchell Hamline Law Review
- Tobacco giant Philip Morris sees a future without cigarettes – but there’s a catch, Los Angeles Times
- Spinning a New Tobacco Industry: How Big Tobacco is Trying to Sell a Do-Gooder Image and What Americans Think About It, Truth Initiative
- Philip Morris-Funded Foundation for a Smoke-Free World, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
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- An end to cigarettes? New Zealand aims to create smoke-free generation, The Guardian
- WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
- Neighborhood Inequities in Tobacco Retailer Density and the Presence of Tobacco-Selling Pharmacies and Tobacco Shops, Health Education & Behavior
- Restricting Product Availability, CounterTobacco.org
- Four Manhattan Beach Retailers Allowed to Sell Tobacco Products, Patch.com
- Manhattan Beach Tobacco Sales Ban Ordinance
- Beverly Hills Tobacco Sales Ban Ordinance
- Dolgeville, NY: Retail Environment Tobacco Law, Action on Smoking & Health
- Reducing Retailer Density in Philadelphia, org
- Reducing Tobacco Retail Density in San Francisco: A Case Study, San Francisco Tobacco-Free Project
- Number of Smokefree and Other Tobacco-Related Laws, American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation
- The War in the Store, CounterTobacco.org
