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ReviewTobacco control2005

Framing tobacco control efforts within an ethical context.

B J Fox

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Review in Tobacco control, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Just blowing smoke? Social desirability and reporting of intentions to quit smoking.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2013
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

B J FoxUniversity of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center, 385 WARF, 610 Walnut Street, Madison, WI 53726, USA. bjfox@uwccc.wisc.edu

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Public health efforts to promote tobacco control are not performed within a vacuum. They are subject to interpretation and misinterpretation by consumers and policymakers based largely upon the initial framing of the issues. This paper notes how the tobacco industry has established a particular frame that it is the protector of individual rights and that the public health community is trying to eliminate those rights. This paper then shows how the public health community uses metaphors that may unintentionally support this framing and suggests that by reframing public health efforts in accordance with core ethical principles, the public health community can create more positive messages. A public health ethical framework is proposed to examine how the application of the principles can influence the tobacco control movement. Through the increased use of ethics in tobacco control, the public health community may be better positioned to claim the high road as the protector of the public's interests.

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Bioethical IssuesSmoking PreventionHuman RightsHumansPublic HealthTobacco Industry

Identifiers

PMID16046701
PMCPMC1766190

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