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• Title: Tobacco Control Interest Groups and Their Influence on Parliamentary Committees in Canada (Qualitative Research) (Report)
• Author : Canadian Journal of Public Health
• Release Date : January 01, 2009
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 289 KB

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Health advocacy, a strategy of pressuring governments for legislative and regulatory changes that improve health, is an essential part of health promotion and public health policy. Interest groups engage in health advocacy by providing the public and policy-makers with information (e.g., technical or scientific) and lobbying policy-makers both in public forums and private forums to support particular positions. (1) Tobacco control is an issue that evokes strong reactions from various stakeholders because it sits at the interface of individual versus collective rights, and health improvements versus tax revenues. Of all stakeholders, the tobacco industry has the most political clout given its wealth, despite its low credibility and a poor reputation. (2,3) Thus, the inclusion of tobacco control interest groups (e.g., the Non-Smokers' Rights Association, Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada or the Canadian Cancer Society) in tobacco control deliberations is necessary to advocate for public health. Otherwise, the tobacco industry and its interests might dominate policy discussions. This is occurring in other countries, for example, in Argentina, where tobacco control legislation is seen as weak as a result of strong industry pressure and an inability to learn from the experience of other countries. (4) In Asia, the tobacco industry, in its efforts to counter and delay the process of tobacco control legislation and tobacco control regulations, is attempting to undermine tobacco control advocacy groups, including the World Health Organization and the Asia Pacific Association for the Control of Tobacco. (5) Effective health advocacy is required from tobacco control interest groups in order to achieve optimal tobacco control legislation. (6)

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