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Tobacco Control Legislation: Tools for Public Health Improvement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

James G. Hodge Jr.  and
Gabriel B. Eber
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Government’s responsibility to safeguard the public’s health through law has been part of the social contract since ancient times. Cicero declared salus populi suprema lex esto - “the safety of the people is the supreme law”. Disraeli proclaimed that protecting the public’s health is the first duty of the statesman. Of the ten most important public health achievements of the 20th century in the US., seven are directly related to legal interventions, including legislative interventions. As new and existing risks to health risks emerge internationally, governments have consistently used the law as a tool to define the goals of public health, direct public health authorities to accomplish these goals, and equip them with the power and resources to do so.

Tobacco control represents a salient example of how law can be used to ensure health. Like other public health laws, tobacco control laws have historic grounds. Government and other policymakers have enacted laws to control tobacco use for hundreds of years. The Russian church forbade tobacco use as an “abomination.”

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 32 , Issue 3 , Fall 2004 , pp. 516 - 523
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2004

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