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This category focuses on public policy issues related to tobacco. These issues include, but are not limited to:

• Advertising,
• Smoke-free areas,
• Taxation,
• Activism and lobbying,
• Prevention of tobacco use,
• Promotion of tobacco use,
• Media coverage of issues,
• Economic considerations, and
• Smuggling.

Sites not listed in this category:

• Topics focused on the effects of tobacco on the human body are organized in Health: Specific Substances: Tobacco: Effects.
• Topics focused on tobacco and addiction are organized in Health: Addictions: Substance Abuse: Tobacco.
• Topics related to the recreational use of tobacco are organized in Recreation: Tobacco.
• Manufacturers of tobacco products are organized in Recreation: Tobacco: Manufacturers.
• Wholesalers of tobacco products are organized in Recreation: Tobacco: Wholesalers.
• Online retailers of tobacco products are organized in Shopping: Tobacco.

Product_Liability@	Tobacco
Tobacco	Tobacco
Smoking	Tobacco
Tobacco	Tobacco
Advocacy	Economic Impact
Government	Industry Critiques
Master Settlement Agreement	Media
Secondhand Smoke	Smuggling
Tobacco Industry Documents

• Addressing Tobacco in Managed Care Tobacco use reduction conferences, papers, research results, and best practices of interest to health plans; health effects; secondhand smoke; effectivess of media campaigns; effectiveness of quit smoking methods.
• Addressing Tobacco In Managed Care Set of research articles on how and why tobacco use is a priority in managed care, and what can be done about it.
• Addressing Tobacco in Managed Care-- Bibliography Fall 1998 Annotated technical bibliography on tobacco cessation, policy, clinical practice guidelines, smoking costs and cessation cost effectiveness, secondhand smoke, physician intervention, pregnancy, spit tobacco, and youth.
• AMWA Position Paper: Tobacco Control and Prevention The American Medical Womens Association outlines its stand and proposed policy initiatives.
• Anti-Tobacco Measures Prevent Cancer California's tough anti-smoking measures and public health campaigns have resulted in a 14% decrease in lung cancer.
• Cigarette Law Article in law digest reviews the history of how cigarettes got exempted from almost all product liability law, and considers if the behavior of the tobacco industry would have been different without those exemptions.
• Corpwatch - Tobacco, Free Trade and Globalization Articles addressing how restricting tobacco is getting harder to do as the world drops trade restrictions and economies become intertwined.
• FindLaw Legal News: Tobacco Updates on tobacco law from international to local, tobacco ligitation updates, and tobacco industry documents that feature in tobacco law.
• Report and Recommendations of the Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on Tobacco Investments University of Michigan considers whether to own tobacco stock; a report of the committee appointed to study the question.
• Selling Off or Selling Out? Medical Schools and Ethical Leadership in Tobacco Stock Divestment Tobacco industry documents show that Philip Morris used its funding of medical schools to get them to keep their investment in tobacco stocks.
• The Economic Case Against Tobacco Stocks While some investors avoid tobacco stocks for moral reasons, this article discusses economic reasons for avoiding investing in tobacco stocks.
• The Effect of Tobacco Advertising Bans on Tobacco Consumption Paper in the Journal of Health Economics; concludes that comprehensive bans reduce consumption, limited bans have little or no effect.
• Tobacco Law Compendium Searchable by case, legislation, bylaw, or legal literature, as well as document text. In English and French.
• Tobacco Legal and Policy Issues Papers on state laws on tobacco control, preemptive state tobacco laws, attitudes towards smoking in different states, effectiveness of tobacco control programs, and MMWR reports.

 

 

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