Unfiltered

Conflicts over Tobacco Policy and Public Health

Eric Feldman, Ronald Bayer, Ronald Bayer

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN:
  9780674013346
• eBook ISBN:
  9780674036789
• Topic: Jura
• Subtopic: Völkerrecht

Tobacco, among the most popular consumer products of the twentieth century, is under attack. Once a behavior that knew no social bounds, cigarette smoking has been transformed into an activity that reflects sharp differences in social status.

Unfiltered tells the story of how anti-smoking advocates, public health professionals, bureaucrats, and tobacco corporations have clashed over smoking regulation. The nations discussed in this book--Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States--restrict tobacco advertising, tax tobacco products, and limit where smoking is permitted. Each is also struggling to shape a tobacco policy that ensures corporate accountability, protects individual liberty, and asserts the state's public health power.

Unfiltered offers a comparative perspective on legal, political, and social conflicts over tobacco control. The book makes a unique contribution to our understanding of how scientific evidence, global health advocacy, individual risk assessments, and governmental interests intersect in the crafting of tobacco policy. It features national case studies and cross-cultural essays by experts in health policy, law, political science, history, and sociology. The lessons in Unfiltered are crucial to all who seek to understand and influence tobacco policy and reduce tobacco-related mortality worldwide.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Introduction: Liberal States, Public Health, and the Tobacco Question
• Chapter 1. Children and Bystanders First: The Ethics and Politics of Tobacco Control in the United States Ronald Bayer and James Colgrove
• Chapter 2. The Limits of Tolerance: Cigarettes, Politics, and Society in Japan Eric A. Feldman
• Chapter 3. Rights and Public Health in the Balance: Tobacco Control in Canada Christopher P. Manfredi and Antonia Maioni
• Chapter 4. The Politics of Tobacco Control in Australia: International Template? John Ballard
• Chapter 5. Militants, Manufacturers, and Governments: Postwar Smoking Policy in the United Kingdom Virginia Berridge
• Chapter 6. Liberté, Egalité, Fumée: Smoking and Tobacco Control in France Constance A. Nathanson
• Chapter 7. Between Paternalism and Voluntarism: Tobacco Consumption and Tobacco Control in Germany Günter Frankenberg
• Chapter 8. Holy Smoke, No More? Tobacco Control in Denmark Erik Albæk
• Chapter 9. Tobacco-Control Policy in the European Union Anna Gilmore and Martin McKee
• Chapter 10. Difference and Diffusion: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Rise of Anti-Tobacco Policies Allan M. Brandt
• Chapter 11. Tobacco Control in Comparative Perspective: Eight Nations in Search of an Explanation Theodore R. Marmor and Evan S. Lieberman
• Conclusion: Lessons from the Comparative Study of Tobacco Control
• Notes
• Contributors
• Index