Ethical and Legal Analyses of Policy Prohibiting Tobacco Smoking in Enclosed Public Spaces

Ethical and legal analyses of policy prohibiting tobacco smoking in enclosed public spaces.

A spate of legislations prohibiting cigarette smoking in enclosed public spaces, mainly on grounds of public health protection, recently swept across cities around the world. This is in tandem with a raft of increasingly restrictive national laws that emerged on the back of the ratification of the WHO Framework for Tobacco Control by more than one 168 countries in 2005. The central debate on th...

Waterpipe tobacco smoking impact on public health: implications for policy

BACKGROUND Given the increasing evidence of its negative health effects, including contributions to both infectious and chronic diseases, waterpipe tobacco smoking raises public health concerns beyond even those presented by traditional smoking. METHODS Identification of Clean Indoor Air Acts (CIAAs) from each of the 50 United States and District of Columbia were retrieved and examined for in...

Causes of Judicial and Legal Criminal Policy Disagreement in Drug-Related Offenses from the Legal-Ethical Approach

Background: The legislative review of the criminal record on the crime of repetition and the severity of the punishment for repeated offenders indicates that the legislator firstly used various laws to include repetition of crime, and in some cases such as drug offenses and for criminal reasons. It has taken into account a certain degree of exacerbation that is markedly different from what is s...

A survey of the legal, ethical, and public policy considerations of in vitro fertilization.

Tobacco and public policy in Kenya

service Email alerting top right corner of the article Receive free email alerts when new articles cite this article-sign up in the box at the Background and objective: British American Tobacco (BAT) has historically enjoyed a monopoly position in Kenya. Analysis of recent tobacco control debates and a case study of BAT's response to the emergence of competition in Kenya are used to explore the...