On September 19-20, 2014, the Public Health Advocacy Institute, in conjunction with the Tobacco Control Legal Consortium and Northeastern University School of Law will host a conference for advocates, “50 Years After the Surgeon General’s Report: Accelerating Tobacco Endgame Strategies in the United States.\” This meeting will provide a blueprint to identify laws, regulations and policies that can:

• Reduce smoking rates to near-zero
• Give consumers true freedom of choice by eliminating addiction from the equation
• Consign non-smoker exposure to tobacco smoke to the dustbin of history
• Finally complete the process that began with the 1964 Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health

See the program agenda (pdf)

Speakers will include exceptional tobacco control researchers and policy leaders sharing both evidence-based best practices and bold new practices that comprise a true endgame for tobacco products. Confirmed speakers include:

                      Stan Glantz            Cynthia Hallett

                      Ken Warner          Frank Chaloupka

                     Ruth Malone          AJ Berrick

             David Sweanor        Meg Riordan

           Dick Daynard         Mark Gottlieb

                       Doug Blanke          Dorothy Hatsukami

 Jonathan P. Winickoff          Shane K. Bradbrook

and a special message from:
Rear Admiral  Boris D. Lushniak, M.D., M.P.H.

This meeting, the first of its kind in the United States, will highlight federal, state and local actions that will lead to an end to tobacco-caused addiction, death and disease in this country.

Re-imagining tobacco control as a means to truly end a public health problem that still kills more than 400,000 Americans each year is the next chapter in the movement that began 50 years ago when Surgeon General Luther Terry released the first Report on Smoking and Health.

The conference will be held September 19-20 (Fri-Sat) at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, MA.

The meeting will be held in Dockser Hall (directions). Please review parking and directions.

Our block of rooms at the Colonnade has sold out.  However, there are several hotels very close to our campus that may still have availability:

• The Midtown Hotel
  220 Huntington Ave
  Boston, MA 02115
  617-262-1000
• Boston Marriott Copley Place
  110 Huntington Ave
  Boston, MA 02116
  617-236-5800
• Copley Square Hotel
  47 Huntington Ave
  Boston, MA 02116
  866-891-2174
• The Eliot Hotel
  370 Commonwealth Ave
  Boston, MA 02215
  617-267-1607
• Hampton Inn & Suites
  Boston Crosstown Center
  811 Massachusetts Ave
  Boston, MA 02118
  617-445-6400 or 800-426-7866
• Hilton Back Bay
  40 Dalton St
  Boston, MA 02115
  617-236-1100
• Inn at Longwood
  342 Longwood Ave
  Boston, MA 02115
  617-731-4700
• The Lenox Hotel
  710 Boylston St
  Boston, MA 02116-2699
  800-899-0564
• Sheraton Boston
  39 Dalton Street
  Boston, MA 02116
  617-263-2000  or 800-325-3535