ArticleTobacco control2023
Framing the policy debate over tobacco control legislation and tobacco taxation in South Africa.
Article in Tobacco control, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Health advocacy strategies to influence policy-making on and regulation of new and emerging tobacco and nicotine products in Latin America and the Caribbean.Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health · 2025Article
- The trends of lung cancer burden in BRICS from 1990 to 2021 and its projection to 2035.Frontiers in oncology · 2024Article
- Hosting the Tobacco Industry Supply Chain and Political Interference.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2023Article
- The nature and contribution of innovative health financing mechanisms in the World Health Organization African region: A scoping review.Journal of global health · 2023Article
- Framing health taxes: a scoping review.BMJ global health · 2023Article
- Advocacy counterstrategies to tobacco industry interference in policymaking: a scoping review of peer-reviewed literature.Globalization and health · 2023Article
- "Are they trying to control us people?": News media coverage of COVID-19 lockdown tobacco sales ban in South Africa.PloS one · 2022Article
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4 authors at 3 institutions in 4 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundIn 2018, South Africa opened public consultations on its newly proposed tobacco control bill, resulting in substantial public debate in which a range of arguments, either in favour of or against the Bill, was advanced. These were accompanied by the recurring discussions about the annual adjustments in tobacco taxation. This study uses the concept of framing to examine the public debate in South African print media on the potential effects of the legislation, as well as tobacco tax regulations, between their proponents and detractors.
methodsA systematic search of news articles using multiple data sources identified 132 media articles published between January 2018 and September 2019 that met the inclusion criteria.
resultsSeven overarching frames were identified as characterising the media debate, with the three dominant frames being
conclusionThe dominance of economic arguments opposing tobacco control legislation risks undermining tobacco control progress. Local and global tobacco control advocates should seek to build relationships with media, as well as collate and disseminate effective counterarguments to those advanced by the industry.
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