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Table of Contents

• Public Policy
• The physician's role in promoting public policy
• What physicians can do
• Qualities of effective physician media advocates
• Media advocacy
• Aggressively pursue mass media
• Key policy areas
• Laws and regulations on indoor smoking
• Smoke-free air as norm
• Consequences of environmental tobacco smoke, 1 of 3
• Consequences of environmental tobacco smoke, 2 of 3
• Consequences of environmental tobacco smoke, 3 of 3
• Raising cigarette taxes
• Tobacco industry knows tax increases cut use
• Nearly all new smokers are under 18
• Current regulation not protecting public
• Supreme Court: FDA has no tobacco authority
• Tobacco advertising and promotion
• The FDA rule
• Public policy actions driven by state and local coalitions
• Litigation holds tobacco industry accountable
• Lawsuits against tobacco industry
• The master settlement agreement
• WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
• Transitional dimensions of tobacco control