1. The document discusses key elements of endgame thinking for tobacco control, including conceptual shifts towards becoming tobacco-free, strategic approaches that map backwards from goals, and potential endgame strategies related to products, users, retail, and markets.
2. It outlines Cancer Research UK's endgame report, which aims to contribute to dialogue, inform planning, influence policymakers, and support campaigns. The report includes case studies, UK analysis of stop smoking services and inequalities, and recommendations.
3. The recommendations call for near-term actions like an endgame summit, communications, research funding, and addressing the tobacco industry and harm reduction, as well as long-term recommendations around tobacco regulation, retail outlets, and economic
2. “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood,
divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the
vast and endless sea.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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6. Key elements of endgame thinking
1. CONCEPTUAL SHIFT:
– Go beyond tobacco control to becoming “tobacco free”
– FCTC as the “middle game”
– Enable Blue Sky thinking about new approaches
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7. Key elements of endgame thinking
2. STRATEGIC APPROACH:
– Think through final stages of achieving the goal
– Set specific targets and map backwards
– Informs middle-term strategy
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8. Key elements of endgame thinking
3. ENDGAME STRATEGIES
– Product
– User
– Retail
– Market
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4. REINVIGORATING DEBATE
– Academic papers
– Conferences themes
– Attracting new audiences
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5. A BOLD VISION
– Scotland “Tobacco Free Generation” by 2034
– Ireland tobacco free by 2025!
– Global goal to reduce prevalence by 30% by 2025
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16. UK Endgame Report
4. UK ANALSYIS
– Strength of stop smoking services
– Inequalities issues
– EU context
– Harm reduction challenge
– Mystics and Mechanics16
17. “Without an explicit engagement with the idea that an endgame for
tobacco is possible, such an outcome cannot be achieved.”
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Recommendations
18. Near Term Recommendations
1. ENGAGEMENT
– An Endgame Summit
– Develop a plan
– Fund research
– Communications and engagement
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19. Near Term Recommendations
2. TOBACCO INDUSTRY
– Mass communications campaign
– Article 5.3 implementation
– Marketing
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First thing I want to say is that neither this presentation, nor CRUK’s endgame report will tell you what the UK’s endgame strategy should be
What it will do is try to initiate a discussion about what endgame thinking is (and what it is not), and hopefully help you think about how you can use it.
It’s in two parts
An overview of endgame thinking – that includes a brief look at some of the innovative policy levers that have been discussed in the endgame dialogue
And an overview of the Cancer Research UK endgame report and the recommendations it makes for pursuing endgame thinking in the UK
3. So what are these types of policies that might be possible as prevalence gets lower and smoking becomes an increasingly minority issue – i.e. When there’s fewer pieces on the board.
Modfiying the Product
Banning the manufacturing innovations and additives that have been introduced to make cigarettes easier to inhale and taste better
Incentivising the use of “cleaner” nicotine products like e-cigarettes – perhaps even eventually banning combustibles?
Restricting Tobacco Users
Restricting sales by year of birth so that future generations can never purchase cigarettes (part of Singapore’s strategy)
Introducing a smokers licence or prescription
Retail regulation
Reducing the number of retail outlets
Controlling tobacco industry pricing and profits to eliminate the pricing strategies that allow companies to absorb tax rises and keep “ultra-low price” products on the market.
Massive tax increases to drive up the prices in short, sharp shocks.
Market
Regulated market model with a tobacco products agency as the regulator and sole purchaser from importers and manufacturers
Setting a “sinking lid” on the volume of tobacco that can be imported and sold.
4. Reinvigorating debate
EndGame thinking has generated a whole new rich theme in academic papers –for example recently the Tobacco control journal produced an entire edition dedicated to the theme.
It has also been the theme of conferences – it’s not lost on the organisers that this is something new and attractive that might reinvigorate interest and sell tickets
And international end game conference in New Delhi addressed by Margaret Chan
ASH Scotland’s 40th anniversary conference theme “tobacco free generation”
Fresh North East’s “making smoking history” conference
Even had a session on it at the NCRI that attracted a good number for a non-clinical session
And the WHO EURO Ashgabat conference on noncommunicable diseases – a ministerial level WHO Europe meeting had a whole discussion around creating a Tobacco Free Europe by 2040 as one of only three key themes