PLoS Medicine: smoking

Corporate Social Responsibility and Access to Policy Élites: An Analysis of Tobacco Industry Documents

Gary Fooks and colleagues undertook a review of tobacco industry documents and show that policies on corporate social responsibility can enable access to and dialogue with policymakers at the highest level.

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Building the Field of Health Policy and Systems Research: Social Science Matters

In the second of a series of articles addressing the current challenges and opportunities for the development of Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR), Lucy Gilson and colleagues argue the importance of insights from the social sciences.

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Four Arguments against the Adult-Rating of Movies with Smoking Scenes

Simon Chapman and Matthew Farrelly argue against recent calls in the US and elsewhere for movies with smoking scenes to be adult-rated.

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Government Inaction on Ratings and Government Subsidies to the US Film Industry Help Promote Youth Smoking

Christopher Millett and colleagues examine government inaction on the WHO recommendation for adult content ratings of films with smoking, and highlight the generous film industry subsidies many countries provide.

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