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Ending Appreciable Tobacco Use in A Nation

The document discusses a "sinking lid" strategy to end tobacco use in a nation. This strategy would involve regular reductions in the amount of tobacco released for sale sufficient to achieve the desired level of commercial sales by a target date. Tobacco manufacturers would bid for a residual quota as supply decreases. Prices would rise as supply reduces. The strategy should be introduced alongside complementary interventions to reduce demand and minimize potential adverse effects like increased smuggling or social inequalities. These include smoking cessation support, public education, retail regulation, packaging restrictions, and enforcement against industry opposition. Prerequisites include public support for a tobacco-free society and strong political leadership. Initial success is most likely where borders can be controlled, tobacco is not dome

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Ending Appreciable Tobacco Use in A Nation

The document discusses a "sinking lid" strategy to end tobacco use in a nation. This strategy would involve regular reductions in the amount of tobacco released for sale sufficient to achieve the desired level of commercial sales by a target date. Tobacco manufacturers would bid for a residual quota as supply decreases. Prices would rise as supply reduces. The strategy should be introduced alongside complementary interventions to reduce demand and minimize potential adverse effects like increased smuggling or social inequalities. These include smoking cessation support, public education, retail regulation, packaging restrictions, and enforcement against industry opposition. Prerequisites include public support for a tobacco-free society and strong political leadership. Initial success is most likely where borders can be controlled, tobacco is not dome

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Ending appreciable tobacco use in a nation: using a sinking lid on supply

1. 2. 3. 4. George Thomson, Nick Wilson, Tony Blakely, Richard Edwards+

1. Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand 1. Correspondence to Dr George Thomson, University of Otago, Wellington, Box 7343, Wellington, New Zealand; [email protected]

Abstract
We discuss some of the practical and ethical questions that may arise for a jurisdiction where a sinking lid endgame strategy for tobacco supply is implemented. Such a strategy would involve regular required reductions in the amount of tobacco released to the market for sale, sufficient to achieve the desired level of commercial sales by a target date. Tobacco manufacturers would periodically bid to the government for a residual quota. Prices would increase as supply reduced. The price level would be influenced by demand, which in turn would reflect the impact of other interventions to reduce demand and the changing normality of smoking. Higher priced tobacco could result in increased smuggling, theft, illegal sales and short-tomedium-term aggravation of some social inequalities. We suggest that the strategy be introduced in conjunction with a range of complementary interventions that would help reduce demand, and thus help ensure that the possible adverse effects are minimized. These complementary interventions include: providing comprehensive best practice smoking cessation support, better information to smokers and the public, strengthened regulation of tobacco retailing and supply, further controlling the pack and product design, measures to restrict supplies that bypass the increases in product price, strengthened enforcement and combating industry attacks. General prerequisites for a sinking lid strategy include public support for the goal of a tobaccofree society, and strong political leadership. The likely context for initial success in jurisdictions includes geographical isolation and/or strong border controls, absence of significant tobacco production and/or manufacturing and low government corruption.

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