Big Tobacco, war and politics

Preventive War and Democratic Politics

I define the concept of preventive war, distinguish it from preemption and other sources of better-now-than-later logic, and examine numerous conceptual issues that confound theoretical and empirical analyses of prevention. I then consider the argument that democracies rarely if ever adopt preventive war strategies because such strategies are contrary to the preferences of democratic publics an...

FROM POLITICS OF WAR TO POLITICS OF PEACE – NORTHERN UGANDA: Whose War, Whose Peace & Whose Justice

The politics of tobacco regulation.

European Journal of Public Health, Vol. 25, No. 2, 186 The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved. doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckv004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . ....

The politics of tobacco advertising.

Background: In 1998 the attorneys general of 46 states signed a Master Settlement Agreement with the four largest tobacco companies in the United States. The agreement prohibits tobacco advertising that targets people younger than 18 years of age. Methods: We analyzed the trends in expenditures for advertising for 15 specific brands of cigarettes and the exposure of young people to cigarette ad...

Big marijuana--lessons from big tobacco.

highly efficient vector, a nonimmune population, and mining conditions that encouraged both vector breeding and malaria transmission fueled recurrent epidemics of malaria, which apparently started in the 1940s or early 1950s; 80% of the cases were P. falciparum. In 1955, public health authorities in Pailin began distributing chloroquine to workers daily; later, the frequency was reduced to twic...