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.” [1]
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. Listen below or on iTunes/Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, or LibSyn.
Sources and Resources:
- The tobacco endgame: a qualitative review and synthesis, Tobacco Control
- 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
- Navigating the Takings Clause While Ending the Tobacco Epidemic, Public Health Law Center
- 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
Last updated November 22, 2022
