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Article

1 Jan 2002

Author:
report prepared by D. Douglas Blanke, Director of the Tobacco Law Project-William Mitchell College of Law, for the Tobacco Free Initiative, World Health Organization

full report: "Towards health with justice: Litigation and public inquiries as tools for tobacco control"

Looks at past and current tobacco litigation around the world and analyses its impact on public health. The report says it is time to make the law, and inquiries into the behavior of tobacco transnationals, an integral component of the comprehensive global tobacco control agenda, in a way that advances both health and justice.