Mind the Gap: What the U.S. Can Learn from the U.K.'s National Tobacco Control Strategy

January 12, 2010

A discussion on the evolution of effective models and policy to make smoking cessation tools and treatment as accessible, attractive and efficacious as possible.

Moderator

Ray Niaura

Associate Director for Science, Schroeder Institute for Tobacco Policy and Research Studies at Legacy

Panelists

Deborah Arnott

Chief Executive, Action on Smoking & Health, and European Board member for the Framework Convention Alliance
Oliver Smith

Deputy Director, Tobacco and Health & Wellbeing Policy, Department of Health, London, UK
June Raine

Director of Vigilance Risk Management of Medicines (VRMM) for the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)
Martin Jarvis

Professor Emeritus of Health Psychology

Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, University College London
Michael C. Fiore, MD, MPH, MBA

Professor of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin Medical School and Director of the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention

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About the Warner Series

This is a crucial point in time for public health and tobacco control. The federal government has shown great leadership in addressing the tobacco epidemic, but the fact remains that tobacco kills nearly 400,000 people in the United States annually, making it the number-one cause of preventable death.

The Kenneth E. Warner Lecture Series at Legacy provides public health leaders with a forum for a dynamic and thought-provoking dialogue on emerging and controversial issues, laying the seeds for a comprehensive, collaborative plan for the next generation of tobacco control policies. Legacy has hosted more than 1000 attendees both in person and online for these highly--anticipated events.