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Article de Périodique
Comparing alcohol with tobacco indicates that it is time to move beyond tobacco exceptionalism [Editorial] (2019)
Auteur(s) :
McCAMBRIDGE, J. ;
MORRIS, S.
Année
2019
Page(s) :
200-201
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Refs biblio. :
5
Domaine :
Alcool / Alcohol ; Tabac / Tobacco / e-cigarette
Discipline :
SAN (Santé publique / Public health)
Thésaurus mots-clés
ALCOOL
;
TABAC
;
COMPARAISON
;
INDUSTRIE DU TABAC
;
COUT SOCIAL
;
SANTE PUBLIQUE
Résumé :
Tobacco is distinct in the harm to health it causes, and is produced by an industry which requires a special form of regulation. Such recognition has been crucial to advances in tobacco control and is known as tobacco exceptionalism. Paradoxically, this idea may now limit progress in global health by obscuring how hard won lessons may apply to other commercial sectors that damage people's health.
Tobacco is produced by a highly concentrated and globalized industry, whose behavior over many decades has been shown to have transgressed the most basic ethical responsibilities towards human life in pursuit of profit. The tobacco companies are now accepted as requiring a distinct model of governance, which includes the protection of public health policies from interference because of 'a fundamental and irreconcilable conflict between the tobacco industry’s interests and public health policy'. This position is enshrined in a binding United Nations treaty in the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC). Tobacco companies' internal documents constitute an unusually strong form of evidence on their internal machinations. These show that the tobacco companies continue to understand very well that their business interests are compromised by public health policies, and for this reason continue to oppose them strongly. [Extract]
Tobacco is produced by a highly concentrated and globalized industry, whose behavior over many decades has been shown to have transgressed the most basic ethical responsibilities towards human life in pursuit of profit. The tobacco companies are now accepted as requiring a distinct model of governance, which includes the protection of public health policies from interference because of 'a fundamental and irreconcilable conflict between the tobacco industry’s interests and public health policy'. This position is enshrined in a binding United Nations treaty in the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC). Tobacco companies' internal documents constitute an unusually strong form of evidence on their internal machinations. These show that the tobacco companies continue to understand very well that their business interests are compromised by public health policies, and for this reason continue to oppose them strongly. [Extract]
Affiliation :
Department of Health Sciences, ARRC Building, University of York, Heslington, York, UK