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Restricting tobacco sales to only pharmacies as an endgame strategy: are pharmacies likely to opt in?
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Deen, Frederieke Sanne Petrović-Van Der Wilson, Nick |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Abstract | In recent years, a number of novel and bold proposals to accelerate progress towards nation’s smokefree goals (i.e. ‘tobacco endgame strategies’) have emerged in the literature, and have been politically explored in some settings.1 The particular idea of completely changing the current tobacco retail landscape, by way of designating tobacco sales to pharmacies only, gained wide international media attention when a private member’s bill was introduced in the Icelandic Parliament in 2011.2 Albeit not implemented to date, this proposed bill involved a 10-year action plan wherein the number of current outlets selling tobacco (e.g. supermarkets, convenience stores, liquor stores, petrol stations, tobacconists) would first be gradually reduced before restricting tobacco sales to only pharmacies in the final year, where sales could be combined with smoking cessation advice.1,2 Yet, ideally, such a strategy should leave the decision to opt in or out to the invididual pharmacies (similarly to needle-exchange programs and the dispension of methadone as conducted by pharmacies in some settings, e.g. New Zealand). |
| Starting Page | 219 |
| Ending Page | 220 |
| Page Count | 2 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1111/1753-6405.12764 |
| PubMed reference number | 29442398 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 42 |
| Issue Number | 2 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.otago.ac.nz/wellington/otago676339.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1111/1753-6405.12764 |
| Journal | Australian and New Zealand journal of public health |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
