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For example, Colombia was a stronghold for the tobacco corporation Philip Morris International two decades ago, and comprehensive tobacco-control legislation in that country was long unthinkable.
Likewise, governments worldwide are adopting measures that are proven to reduce smoking rates and save lives, including graphic health warnings, marketing restrictions, and laws requiring tobacco products to be sold in unbranded packaging.
If they are successful in negotiations at the FCTC conference this month, governments will have the tools they need to make Big Tobacco pay for the damage it has done.
Beyond serving as a temporary aid for people attempting to quit smoking cigarettes, such new nicotine-delivery systems could act as long-term alternatives to tobacco – making it possible to eliminate tobacco consumption almost entirely.
The use of nicotine in non-combustible forms like smokeless tobacco, or PNV, would enable millions of current smokers to reduce considerably the harm that their nicotine consumption is doing to their health.
In Sweden, the widespread use of snus – a smokeless tobacco product with a lower concentration of carcinogenic nitrosamines – has contributed to a dramatic decline in the incidence of lung cancer, to the world’s lowest levels.
The benefits of phasing out tobacco consumption could not be more compelling.
That is why PNVs should be actively promoted as an alternative to tobacco products, aided by endorsements from health authorities, tax advantages, and support from the anti-smoking movement.
But nicotine is only partly responsible for tobacco dependence.
Other substances from tobacco smoke – such as monoamine oxidase inhibitors, which have antidepressant effects –reinforce tobacco dependence, but are absent from vaporized nicotine.
With minimal health risks compared to tobacco smoking, PNVs face only one real barrier to use: smokers’ willingness to switch.
If smokers are willing to accept PNVs as a viable option, high-risk tobacco use could become a thing of the past.
The European Union’s Tobacco Products Directive and the United Kingdom’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency plan to introduce strict regulations of PNV sales and use, based on drug legislation, even though the devices are neither tobacco nor medical products.
Indeed, an increasing number of scientific publications show that PNV use is much safer than smoking tobacco.
Russell once declared, “It is nicotine that people cannot easily do without, not tobacco.”
And it is tobacco smoke, not nicotine, that kills.
But, as has been demonstrated in areas like air pollution, traffic congestion, spectrum allocation, and tobacco consumption, market mechanisms are often the best way for governments to address such failures.
Investors have used ethical grounds in the past – excluding, say, tobacco companies or corporations abetting apartheid in South Africa – and have been successful in generating pressure on the underlying stocks.
Moreover, excise taxes are a convenient source of revenue in developing countries, as they are primarily levied on products such as alcohol, tobacco, gas, vehicles, and spare parts, which involve few producers, large sales volumes, relatively inelastic demand, and easy observability.
They include low-cost drugs to reduce heart attacks, vaccines to prevent cervical cancer, and the same tobacco taxes and advertising rules that dramatically cut smoking rates throughout Europe and the US.
They can be emotional (anxiety, depression, hypochondria, and alienation), cognitive (loss of concentration or recall, inability to learn new things, be creative, make decisions), behavioural (abuse of drugs, alcohol, and tobacco, refusal to seek or accept treatment), or physiological (neuroendocrine and immunological dysfunction).
For similar reasons, many investors do not want handgun manufacturers or tobacco companies in their portfolios.
In 1990, Harvard divested completely from tobacco companies.
Today’s students make cogent arguments that the case for fossil-fuel divestment looks similar to the case for tobacco divestment.
Before divesting from tobacco companies, Harvard wrote to them, requesting that they address the ethical issues involved in selling tobacco and their adherence to World Health Organization guidelines.
(So, too, did the tobacco companies spend vast sums on political lobbying and bogus science to deny the links between smoking and lung cancer.)
In other words, they will be targeted by those who do not have their wellbeing as their primary goal – scammers like Bernie Madoff, corporate interests like McDonalds or tobacco companies, the guru of the month, or cash-strapped governments running exploitative lotteries.
Most surprisingly, Zimbabwe’s exports were not restricted to minerals and metals, as one might assume, but also included tobacco and cotton, products that are relatively more labor-intensive, meaning more job creation at home.
The other top-ten ideas from our researchers are: expanding the potential for irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa; developing a marketable “polypill” for hypertension and cardiovascular disease; researching ways to introduce successful tobacco taxes in developing countries; conducting action research – a particular approach and type of research that involves a high level of engagement between researchers and practitioners; and improving the ability of customs offices to identify illicit transactions.
Policymakers must pursue aggressive action to curb the spread of risk factors like the consumption of tobacco, alcohol, and obesogenic foods.
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