4236.0: Tuesday, November 12, 2002: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM |
Oral |
Tobacco Control and the Liberal State: Legal, Ethical, and Policy Issues |
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| For the past several years, with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Substance Abuse Policy Research Program, a group of international, interdisciplinary scholars has been examining the ethical and legal context of the tobacco policy debate. Our goal is to contribute to the efforts of US policy makers, advocates, and health professionals involved in pursuing appropriate and effective tobacco control measures. The following questions have animated our work:
Do efforts to achieve the goal of reducing the prevalence of smoking inevitably entail paternalistic interventions? If so, on what basis can such paternalism be justified? What principles should guide the effort to alter the behavior of large numbers of individuals, indeed of social behavior? Is protecting smokers from themselves a legitimate role for government, or ought government public health powers be more circumscribed, and focus on preventing harm to others? What is the most appropriate balance between the promotion of community health and the preservation of individual liberty? At what point may policies designed to protect the “body biological” become potentially injurious to the body politic?
This panel will present the results of our research, and preview the contents of our forthcoming book. |
| Learning Objectives: It involves a series of case studies of tobacco control in 8 industrialized nations, along with a number of comparative essays. We are in the process of editing the manuscript and writing an introduction, and will soon send it to publishers. If possible, we would very much like to organize a panel at APHA in order to bring together some of our authors and present the key sections of the book. We have country chapters on the US, Japan, Australia, Canada, Germany, France, the UK, and Denmark, and comparative essays on politics (Ted Marmor), social movements (Connie Nathanson), social history (Alan Brandt), and others. |
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. |
| Organizer(s): | Eric A. Feldman, JD, PhD |
| 4:30 PM | | Introductory Remarks
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| 4:35 PM | | Tobacco Control in Comparative Perspective: Framing the Problems and Puzzles - Theodore Marmor
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| 4:52 PM | | Children and Bystanders First: Tobacco Control in the US - Ronald Bayer
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| 5:09 PM | | Rolling Big Tobacco in a Silk Kimono: Smoking and the Japanese State - Eric A. Feldman
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| 5:26 PM | | Medical Elites and “Energetic Zealots” as Catalysts for Smoking Policy Change - Connie Nathanson
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| 5:43 PM | | Panel Discussion
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| Organized by: | Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs |
| Endorsed by: | Ethics Forum; School Health Education and Services; Women's Caucus |
| CE Credits: | Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work |
