Summit fee £50. Registration form available to down load now. Enquiries to Jennifer Black at ASH Scotland: 0131 220 9462.
There is recognition that the availability of cheap illicit tobacco undermines the consumption-dampening effect of government tobacco duty and the public health benefit that this is designed to exert. In addition, communities are made less safe because of the activities of organised criminals who trade in tobacco along with other countereit and smuggled goods, drugs and alcohol.
The STCA Tobacco Control Issues Group proposed a summit to address improving the entire community's response to illicit tobacco and ASH Scotland formed a planning group to coordinate the event. Members of the planning group include representatives of the Scottish Government, SCOTSS, HMRC, ACPOS, Scambusters, Scottish Retail Consortium and University of Edinburgh.
This event is partly funded by Cancer Research UK.
The aims of the summit are to raise awareness of the impact of smuggled and counterfeit tobacco consumption on the national strategy to reduce levels of smoking, links to organised crime, supply of drugs and other counterfeit goods.
It will present an overview of the current strategy to detect and intercept illicit tobacco and identify good practice in inter-agency cooperation and involvement of civil society in reducing both supply and demand for illicit tobacco at both regional and local level.
The summit will also identify elements of an action plan for the development of a Scottish strategy to reduce the supply and demand for illicit tobacco.
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Conference Chair is Professor Gerard Hastings, Director of the Institute for Social Marketing and the CRUK Centre for Tobacco Control Research
Sheila Duffy, Chief Executive, ASH Scotland
Protecting our communities
Mary Cuthbert, Public Health and Substance Misuse Division, Scottish Government
Scotland at the forefront of tobacco
The impact of registration of vendors on the ability of enforcement agencies to reduce illicit tobacco sale and trafficking
Deborah Arnott, Chief Executive of ASH in London
Impact of tobacco on health and economic wellbeing of the UK
Impact on government tax income
Impact on legitimate trade in tobacco
UK strategy on illicit tobacco
Luk Joossens, Advocacy Officer for the European Cancer Leagues
The Global scale of tobacco smuggling
FCTC and the illicit tobacco protocol
David Roderick, Chair of SCOTSS
Scottish Enhanced Enforcement Agreement
Who does what in Scotland
Scambusters
Allan Orr Det Sgt, Interventions Unit, SCDEA
Who are the traders and how do we stop them?
Michael Connelly, HMRC
Examples of successful detection and prosecution
Facilitated by Gerard Hastings
Deborah Arnott, Luk Joossens, Allan Orr, Michael Connelly
John Drummond, Scottish Grocers Federation
Role of retailers in providing an outlet for legitimate tobacco sales
The legitimate supply trail
Andrea Crossfield, Regional Tobacco Policy Manager NW England
NW of England Alliance work in reducing illicit sales
Social marketing to reduce demand
Identifying strengths and weaknesses in current strategy in Scotland
How can the wider community be involved in reducing the supply of and demand for illicit tobacco?
Key speakers to react to suggestions from the table discussion
Mary Cuthbert, Sheila Duffy, David Roderick, Andrea Crossfield