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Meeting

Virtual Roundtable: Generational Tobacco Bans and the Future of Tobacco Control

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Speakers

  • Matthew Myers
    Former President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
  • Deborah Arnott
    Former CEO, Action on Smoking and Health; Honorary Associate Professor, University College London

Presider

  • Thomas J. BollykyCFR Expert
    Bloomberg Chair in Global Health; Senior Fellow for International Economics, Law, and Development; and Director of the Global Health Program, Council on Foreign Relations; CFR Member

From Roundtable Series on Global Health, Economics, and Development and Global Health Program.

Starting next year, selling cigarettes to anyone born on or after January 1, 2009, will be illegal in the United Kingdom—in perpetuity. The results of the U.K. tobacco ban and similar efforts in New Zealand might offer lessons for other nations—such as the United States, where tobacco use has already been declining—on how to tackle tobacco use and other public health challenges. This roundtable explored those lessons and their implications for the future of tobacco control policy.