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But it has long run up against a Victorian belief that the poor are improvident and likely to waste money on alcohol, tobacco, and gambling.
The agreements would significantly inhibit the ability of developing countries’ governments to protect their environment from mining and other companies; their citizens from the tobacco companies that knowingly purvey a product that causes death and disease; and their economies from the ruinous financial products that played such a large role in the 2008 global financial crisis.
Worse, investment agreements enable companies to sue the government over perfectly sensible and just regulatory changes – when, say, a cigarette company’s profits are lowered by a regulation restricting the use of tobacco.
A tobacco tax is particularly effective, with a 10% increase in price reducing consumption by 4-8%.
Instead, we should be attacking known environmental carcinogens – not just tobacco, but also radiation, sunlight, benzene, solvents, and some drugs and hormones.
Moreover, confusion about environmental cancer risks also results from longstanding, carefully cultivated, and well-financed disinformation campaigns inspired by the machinations of the tobacco industry.
Many countries, especially developing countries, are facing the consequences of huge changes in lifestyle: modifications in diet, lower levels of physical activity, and increased tobacco use.
Perhaps 150 million young adults will be killed by tobacco in these two countries alone, unless there is widespread cessation.
We know how to control tobacco use.
Cessation by the 1.1 billion current smokers is needed to lower tobacco deaths over the next few decades.
Tobacco taxes are probably the single most cost-effective intervention for adult health in the world.
Most OECD countries began to take tobacco control seriously in the last two decades, and have decreased male tobacco deaths since.
But effective tobacco control measures are not underway in developing countries.
In many countries, tobacco taxes have fallen in real terms.
Knowledge of the health risks from smoking is low: 61% of Chinese smokers in 1996 thought tobacco did them “little or no harm.”
Opposition from the tobacco industry is an obvious obstacle to tobacco control.
Money not spent on tobacco would be spent on other goods and services.
Indeed, even sharply reduced demand for tobacco would not mean unemployment in most countries.
Smuggling is abetted by the tobacco industry in order to gain market share and scare finance ministers into lowering taxes.
Another common argument against tobacco control – that if people are not harming others, governments should not interfere with their individual decisions – is at odds with both common sense and the evidence.
In countries with good information about tobacco risks, by the time child smokers become adults, more than 80% wish they never started.
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen wisely reminds us that “it is important that the practical case for tobacco control is not dismissed on the basis of an incomplete libertarian argument.”
Governments must take tobacco seriously as a leading killer of adults worldwide.
International poverty goals must include tobacco control.
There are hopeful signs: more than 160 countries have signed the World Health Organization’s global tobacco control treaty, and the Caribbean heads of state have recently declared they want to tackle tobacco together.
About 150-180 million tobacco deaths would be avoided before 2050 if the proportion of adults in developing countries who quit smoking increases from below 5% today to 30-40% by 2020 (like current quit rates in Canada).
Beyond that, Ludwig, Tufts University’s Dariush Mozaffarian, and I have proposed instituting a tax on processed food, much the same way that tobacco is taxed.
Regulatory measures can protect people from exposure to the common causes of NCDs: tobacco, alcohol, physical inactivity, and foods and drinks high in trans-fats, salt, and sugar.
In Australia, the issue was whether the law implied uncompensated expropriation – in this case, of the tobacco companies’ intellectual property in their brands.
The tobacco industry will now take its battle against Australia’s legislation to the World Trade Organization.
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