Tobacco control - protecting future generations’ lungs

Tobacco control: present and future.

The history of tobacco control in the twentieth century can be summed up by the phrase 'too little, too late'. The century saw the proliferation of the most deadly form of tobacco use: cigarette smoking. Until the 1970s, no government took serious action to protect its citizens. In fact, probably the most effective global tobacco control 'strategies' to date have not been motivated by health co...

Suggesting Approaches of Tobacco Control for Policymakers: A Serious Challenge of Iranian Future Health

The Minamata Convention on Mercury: A First Step toward Protecting Future Generations

Why Consider Future Generations

This paper explores the question of our responsibility to future generations in the light of our capacity to radically damage their quality of life, if not prevent their very existence. It introduces the concept of active future timescape as part of a strategy to expand our capacity to think about, empathise with, and take active consideration toward future generations. The notion that we have ...

Efficiency and future generations

Standard lessons from economics tell us that an externality creates inefficiency, and that this inefficiency can be removed by internalizing the externality. This papers considers how successfully these lessons can be extended to intergenerational externalities such as emissions of greenhouse gas. For intergenerational externalities, the standard lessons involve comparisons between states whose...