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Political barriers to evidence-based tobacco control policy: Cronyism and cognitive dissonance, a Tasmanian case study
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Tasmania led in several areas of tobacco control legislation reform in the period 1997 to 2010. Despite this, Tasmania lagged in other crucial areas, particularly the allocation of resources for community education, mass media campaigns and cessation programmes. Key impediments were crony capitalism; the conservative ideology of ‘white male’ politicians; cognitive dissonance of smoking politicians; a lack of perception of priority regarding the scientific research evidence about smoking risk; and delays caused by the tobacco industry. This study analyses the political situation in Tasmania and argues that evidence-based progress on tobacco control resource allocation was not established until 2013.
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Existing studies on how tobacco control policy is passed at the national level focus more on tactics used by opponents rather than proponents.
“Moreover, existing studies on how tobacco control policy is passed at the national level are focused more on tactics used by opponents (eg, lobbying, litigation, protests and other tactics to delay or subvert policy passage) rather than proponents,25–32 with few exceptions.33–36”
From Seven-year tobacco tax plan in Ukraine: a case study of the actors, tactics and factors motivating policy passage (2022) · cites this paper as [32]
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- Authors
- Barnsley, K., Walters, E. H., & Wood-Baker, R.
- Affiliations
- University of Tasmania (AU)
- Venue
- Evidence and Policy
- Publisher
- Bristol University Press
- Published
- 2017-05
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 343-364
- ISSN
- 1744-2648 (ISSN-L)
- 1744-2656
- OpenAlex
- W2345178029
- Cited by
- 7
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2019: 1
- FWCI
- 0.65
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Evidence & Policy (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania) (submittedVersion)
- Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Public Health Policies and Education
- Keywords
- tobacco control, crony capitalism, cognitive dissonance, political ideology, tobacco industry influence, evidence-based policy, resource allocation, smoking cessation interventions, mass media campaigns, community education, Tasmania
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