SILNE-R policy briefs series no 1.

The challenge to be met

Drawing lessons from European experience

How to identify and increase opportunities for tobacco control

1. Dominant framing of tobacco. 
2. Public health ministry in the driver’seat.
3. Presence and public image of tobacco industry.
4. Ideology of policymakers.
5. FCTC 5.3 interpretation

How to strengthen the pro-health coalition’s capacity to act

 

SILNE-R policy briefs series no 2.

Key message: The development and effective implementation of local smoke-free policies can be enhanced by

Enhancing trust with policy actors, through:

1. building coalitions between NGO’s and local authorities
2. using a strategic plan of dissemination and joint action
3. generating and presenting local data on tobacco use

Ensuring priority for tobacco control, through:

1. ensuring sufficient resources for local advocacy
2. ensuring public support and awareness
3. ensuring effective inspection of compliance

Coping with opposing interests and arguments, through:

1. using scientific evidence 
2. using convincing frames such as child protection
3. increasing and demonstrating support among smokers

 

SILNE-R policy briefs series no 3.

Key message: The enforcement of smoke-free school policies by school staff members can be enhanced by:

Improving staff members’ responsibility, through:

1. adopting government legislation on smoke
2. free school policies
3. defining enforcement as a task for each school staff member

Improving staff members’ motivation, through:

1. adopting policy that prevents students from relocating their smoking outside the school premises
2. helping vulnerable students to stop smoking and to address their other problems 

Improving staff members’ confidence, through:

1. adopting government legislation on smoke
2. free school policies
3. ensuring the support of school management 
4. establishing clear rules that are equal to everyone

 

SILNE-R policy briefs series no 4.

Key actions:

1. Involve all school buildings and premises and do not provide adolescents the opportunity to replace smoking to outside the school area;
2. Apply the smoking ban to all individuals during all times;
3. Ensure that all staff members strictly enforce the smoking ban;
4. Establish clear rules that provide staff members the formal authority to sanction non-compliance with the smoking ban;
5. Ensure that staff members progressively sanction adolescents who violate the smoking ban and support smokers to stop smoking;
6. Provide educational efforts to explain why the school chooses to prohibit smoking;
7. Embed the smoking ban in continuous monitoring and adaptation cyclesto actively counter adverse responses.

 

SILNE-R policy briefs series no 5.

Key message:  The impact of smoking bans in bars on youth smoking rates can be enhanced by:

1. Making all bars smoke-free
2. Prohibiting designated smoking areas inside bars
3. Making outdoor spaces at bars smoke-free
4. Monitoring the compliance of bars
5. Introducing educational mass media campaigns to increase the support for smoking bans in bars
6. Offering stop-smoking services tailored to disadvantaged adolescent smokers

 

SILNE-R policy briefs series no 6.

Key measures:

1. Coping with circumvention strategies used by minors. 
2. Increasing compliance among all types of retailers.
3. Banning tobacco vending machines completely.
4. Increasing the legal sales age to 21 years old.
5. Limiting the social exchange of cigarettes at school and in the home.
6. Coherent policy implementation within the European context.