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.

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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