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Large-scale adverse health and developmental outcomes related to tobacco affect millions of people across the world, raising serious questions from a human rights perspective. In response to this crisis, this timely book provides a comprehensive analysis of the promotion and enforcement of human rights protection in tobacco control law and policy at international, regional, and domestic levels. This thought-provoking book offers significant new insights to the topic, laying the foundations for a human rights based approach to tobacco control. Addressing the function of law as a tool to help combat one of the major public health challenges facing society, contributions by global scholars rebut human rights claims presented by the tobacco industry. Emphasis is instead placed upon the human rights of vulnerable individuals, children in particular, as a result of smoking and exposure to second-hand smoke. Illustrating ways in which the right to health can be advanced with regards to tobacco control, smoking and the use of e-cigarettes, this important book will be a vital resource for human rights and health law scholars and practitioners as well as policy makers in public health law. Contributors include: D. Barrett, D. Beyleveld, O.A. Cabrera, A. Constantin A. Garde, M.E. Gispen, L. Gruszczynski, J. Hannah, S. Karjalainen, L. Lane, S. Lierman, A.L. McCarthy, A. Mitchell, S. Negri, O. Nnamuchi, M. Roberts, A. Schmidt, M. Sormunen, A. Taylor, B. Toebes, M. van Westendorp, Y. Zhang

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'Marie Elske Gispen and Brigit Toebes have written a book of worldwide importance and impact. Tobacco is still the leading preventable cause of death globally. Big Tobacco poses a major threat to the right to health. Using a human rights lens, Gispen and Toebes powerfully show how human flourishing demands bold action on tobacco control. The authors are thought leaders globally on health and human rights. Their book is both a superb work of scholarship and a call to action for public health and human rights scholars and advocates everywhere.' -- Lawrence O. Gostin, Georgetown University, US 'Human rights law, at international, regional and national levels, offers important concepts and processes for strengthening tobacco control. Understanding this, the tobacco industry has also sought to co-opt human rights laws and concepts to serve its economic interests. The importance of human rights law to tobacco control is not well understood, which is why this book - convening the leading experts in this emerging field - is such a welcome and important contribution.' -- Roger Magnusson, The University of Sydney, Australia 'A well conceptualized and comprehensive volume on a key issue of our time. Varied in their approach to the topic, the pieces brought together here move from the global to the regional to the national, highlighting the interplay between legal systems, and show how human rights-based approaches to tobacco can support specific measures and actions. Illustrating not only how tobacco can be understood as a human rights concern but where human rights arguments fall short, this book shows how critical attention to ethical, normative and legal arguments may move us forward not only in rhetorical but actionable ways.' -- Sofia Gruskin, University of Southern California, US

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Edited by Marie Elske Gispen, Fellow and Brigit Toebes, Professor of Health Law in a Global Context, Global Health Law Groningen Research Centre, Department of Transboundary Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Groningen, the Netherlands

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