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Tobacco control, global health policy and development: towards policy coherence in global governance

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Collin, Jeff·2012·Tobacco Control
DOI 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2011-050418PMC PMC4474152
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The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) demonstrates the international political will invested in combating the tobacco pandemic and a newfound prominence for tobacco control within the global health agenda. However, major difficulties exist in managing conflicts with foreign and trade policy priorities, and significant obstacles confront efforts to create synergies with development policy and avoid tensions with other health priorities. This paper uses the concept of policy coherence to explore congruence and inconsistencies in objectives, policy, and practice between tobacco control and trade, development and global health priorities. Following the inability of the FCTC negotiations to satisfactorily address the relationship between trade and health, several disputes highlight the challenges posed to tobacco control policies by multilateral and bilateral agreements. While the work of the World Bank has demonstrated the potential contribution of tobacco control to development, the absence of non-communicable diseases from the Millennium Development Goals has limited scope to offer developing countries support for FCTC implementation. Even within international health, tobacco control priorities may be hard to reconcile with other agendas. The paper concludes by discussing the extent to which tobacco control has been pursued via a model of governance very deliberately different from those used in other health issues, in what can be termed 'tobacco exceptionalism'. The analysis developed here suggests that non-communicable disease (NCD) policies, global health, development and tobacco control would have much to gain from re-examining this presumption of difference.

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  • The united front between local and international health organisations demonstrates the value of the transnational tobacco control network in combating tobacco industry interference and supporting FCTC implementation, especially in low-income and middle-income countries.

    “The united front between local and international health organisations demonstrates the value of the transnational tobacco control network in combating tobacco industry interference and supporting FCTC implementation,139495 especially in low-income and middle-income countries.192057”

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    The Introduction describes the FCTC as a means of constraining tobacco corporations, and ‘Tobacco Control and Development: A Limited Impact on Priorities’ says WHO’s African and Southeast Asian regions helped shape its agenda and counter an industry argument. The paper does not establish that a united front of local and international health organisations, or a transnational tobacco control network, combated industry interference and supported FCTC implementation, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. The indexed passages have no page numbers. (LLM, conf=0.78)

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  • Advocacy networks and epistemic communities have continuously improved the links between science and advocacy to advance tobacco control policy; the Uruguay case highlights how this network strengthened the links between trade and tobacco control to combat emerging pressures of trade on health.

    “Advocacy networks and epistemic communities have continuously improved the links between science and advocacy to advance tobacco control policy13149496; the Uruguay case highlights how this network strengthened the links between trade and tobacco control to combat emerging pressures of trade on health.”

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  • Constitutional courts upheld strong tobacco control policies in fourteen countries.

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    The “Tobacco Control and Governance of the Global Economy: Key Tensions” section discusses WTO disputes and proposed challenges to national tobacco policies, but does not report constitutional-court rulings. Searches for constitutional courts and fourteen countries found no passage supporting the claimed number or outcome; page numbers were unavailable in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.76)

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Authors
Collin, J.
Affiliations
University of Edinburgh (GB)
Corresponding author
Collin, Jeff
ORCID
Collin, Jeff
Venue
Tobacco Control
Publisher
BMJ
Published
2012-02-16
Volume
21
Issue
2
Pages
274-280
ISSN
  • 0964-4563 (ISSN-L)
  • 1468-3318
DOI
10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2011-050418
PMC
PMC4474152
OpenAlex
W2156013778
Cited by
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FWCI
12.35
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Tobacco Control (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
National Cancer Institute (R01CA160695)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Smoking Behavior and Cessation
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Public health and occupational medicine
Keywords
Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, policy coherence, global health governance, trade policy, development policy, Millennium Development Goals, non-communicable diseases, multilateral trade agreements, World Bank, global health policy
MeSH terms
Smoking Prevention, Commerce, Health Policy, Health Priorities, Health Promotion, Humans, International Cooperation, Global Health, Models, Organizational

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