From a tobacco control law and policy perspective, Japan has been doing it all wrong. Or so it might seem. At the very … least, tobacco control activists in Japan have had few successes obtaining the standard run of law and policy measures … disclosures, judicial awards of meaningful damages for death and disease caused by tobacco products, strict age …

Tobacco policy initiatives in Japan run in opposing directions. One stronger line is represented by industrial policy … underpinnings, emerges through administrative tobacco control policy promoted primarily by the nation’s Ministry of Health, Labor … unbalanced tug-of-war through 2003. The article then considers the future of tobacco policy in Japan in the context of Japan …

, the senior-most executives of the Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corporation were developing a plan to provide cash and …

This article comprehensively examines the impact of recent smoking control policies in Japan, increases in cigarette … taxes and the enforcement of the Health Promotion Law, on individual smoking choice by using multi-year and nationwide … simple binary choice model based on a random utility model to examine the effects of smoking control policies on individual …