This report examines regulatory options for controlling tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship under Article 13 … of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. The paper considers these options and issues concerning direct … controlling tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship in all forms of media and communication could be: 1) To control all …

taxes lower rates of smokeless tobacco use, they substantially increase smoking among young men. For example, a ten … percentage point increase in the tax on smokeless tobacco would raise the smoking rate by 5.3% percent in this group. The … indoor air laws have no effect. Since smoking cigarettes is much more harmful than smokeless tobacco, higher taxes on …

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 …

This paper examines some of the perceived tensions between free trade and regulation of tobacco for health purposes and … special rules for tobacco are unnecessary. Free trade itself does not raise national sovereignty concerns, nor does it …

The purpose of this article is to examine the existing tobacco uses in Bangladesh alongside with the control in … Bangladesh to explore the implications of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) for international pressure of … smoking in the developing countries, like Bangladesh. This paper also examines the legal issues are appropriate restriction on …

The aim of this study is to explore the ethical dilemma associated with tobacco advertisement. Tobacco advertisement … first part, the tobacco industry was analyzed. By doing that, a background for the ethical judgments was set. In the second … part, the ethical assessment started from two stand points; ‘it is ethical to ban tobacco advertisements’ or ‘it is …

This paper forges a link between support for European integration and adoption of tobacco advertisement restrictions in … integration, the more likely cantonal governments are to restrict tobacco advertising. Policymakers use voters’ support for more … political and media debate, such as tobacco advertisement bans. This effect ought to be especially strong in the absence of …

packaging devoid of all branding. Tobacco manufacturers argue that this constitutes an expropriation of their intellectual … tobacco companies may be limited …

We compare the ownership characteristics of tobacco stocks with their peers in the same country and industry group. We … find lower reported ownership for stocks in the tobacco industry, which suggests that anonymous investors are larger owners … of these sin stocks. Compared to peer stocks, U.S. and U.K. asset managers collectively overweight tobacco stocks, while …