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Global Tobacco Control and the new strategy of the tobacco companies, but will also focus on emerging tobacco products and the development, strategy, and response measures of tobacco hazards in youths and women in 2019. This provides a global perspective on tobacco hazard prevention in order to enhance the effectiveness of tobacco control in various countries. The Taiwan delegation of 12 people is lead by Professor Chen Zi-Lang and Chief Secretary Wang Yi-Jen of the HPA to participate in the conference, and they submitted three papers during the conference. 2018 International Conference on Tobacco Control in Taiwan "The Tobacco Endgame - Taiwan's Integration into the International Community and Tobacco Control Strategy" According to the recent research of the Lancet Medical Journal in 2017: Tobacco use in the Global Burden of Disease Study showed that tobacco products cause 7 million deaths worldwide each year. Currently, within the population of 3 million smoking people in Taiwan, there were 1 million deaths due to smoking in the first half of the 21st century. Smoking is the most important health risk factor in the world and in Taiwan which is most often overlooked. 181 countries around the world, including Taiwan, have signed the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) and have gradually amended relative provisions in accordance with tobacco control policies in terms of the WHO's MPOWER measures. Compared with other countries, Taiwan’s current regulations on tobacco hazard prevention urgently require amendments in response to health challenges of traditional smoking, e-cigarettes, and emerging tobacco products, with the Endgame of reducing the smoking rate to below 5%, which is used as the threshold for a "Smoke-free Taiwan", as well as to correspond with the prediction of the two major events related to global tobacco hazards for the next ten years by Prof. Ruth Malone, editor of Tobacco Control, on October 2018. The events will be as follows: (1) In the next ten years, there would be 60 million deaths worldwide caused by smoking; (2) Within the next ten years, various countries would start to systematically phase out commercial cigarettes, the world conference is therey held. The conference has invited the world’s leading tobacco hazard prevention experts to give speeches on different issues. The experts include: (1) Professor Lam Tai-Hing from the HKU School of Public Health. (2) Researcher Marrisa Reitsma of Global Burden of Disease, University of Washington, USA. (3) Project secretary Dr. Anne Chiew Kin Quah of the International Tobacco Control Assessment Project, University of Waterloo, Canada; (4) Dr. Marita Hefler, news editor of the journal "Tobacco Control" published by BMJ. The conference invited many domestic experts including John Tung Foundation, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan Medical Alliance for the Control of Tobacco, Taiwan Adventist Hospital, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, and other institutions. The conference aims to discuss the issue of tobacco hazards in disease and mortality burden, emerging tobacco product control, as well as international collaboration in the field of tobacco hazard prevention, with the End Game as the ultimate goal of tobacco hazard prevention, in order to analyze the priorities and explore country policies from the perspective of efficiency and feasibility. 141 Research, Monitoring, and International Exchange