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Journal Article
Tobacco-Control Policies in Tobacco-Growing States: Where Tobacco Was King
2015
Overview
Context: The 5 major tobacco-growing states (Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia) are disproportionately affected by the tobacco epidemic, with higher rates of smoking and smoking-induced disease. These states also have fewer smoke-free laws and lower tobacco taxes, 2 evidence-based policies that reduce tobacco use. Historically, the tobacco farmers and hospitality associations allied with the tobacco companies to oppose these policies. Methods: This research is based on 5 detailed case studies of these states, which included key informant interviews, previously secret tobacco industry documents (available at http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu), and media articles. This was supplemented with additional tobacco document and media searches specifically for this article. Findings: The tobacco companies were particularly concerned about blocking tobacco-control policies in the tobacco-growing states by promoting a pro-tobacco culture, beginning in the late 1960s. Nevertheless, since 2003, there has been rapid progress in the tobacco-growing states' passage of smoke-free laws. This progress came after the alliance between the tobacco companies and the tobacco farmers fractured and hospitality organizations stopped opposing smoke-free laws. In addition, infrastructure built by National Cancer Institute research projects (COMMIT and ASSIST) led to long-standing tobacco-control coalitions that capitalized on these changes. Although tobacco production has dramatically fallen in these states, pro-tobacco sentiment still hinders tobacco-control policies in the major tobacco-growing states. Conclusions: The environment has changed in the tobacco-growing states, following a fracture of the alliance between the tobacco companies and their former allies (tobacco growers and hospitality organizations). To continue this progress, health advocates should educate the public and policymakers on the changing reality in the tobacco-growing states, notably the great reduction in the number of tobacco farmers as well as in the volume of tobacco produced.
Publisher
Blackwell Publishing Ltd,THE MILBANK MEMORIAL FUND,BlackWell Publishing Ltd
Subject
/ Agriculture - legislation & jurisprudence
/ Cancer
/ Commerce - legislation & jurisprudence
/ Crops
/ Culture
/ Diseases
/ Farmers
/ Health Policy - legislation & jurisprudence
/ Humans
/ Interinstitutional Relations
/ Kentucky
/ Law
/ Lobbying
/ Smoking
/ Taxes - legislation & jurisprudence
/ Tobacco
/ Tobacco Industry - economics
/ Tobacco Industry - legislation & jurisprudence
/ Tobacco Smoke Pollution - adverse effects
/ Tobacco Smoke Pollution - legislation & jurisprudence
/ Tobacco Smoke Pollution - prevention & control
/ Tobacco Use Disorder - complications
/ Tobacco Use Disorder - epidemiology
/ Tobacco Use Disorder - prevention & control
/ United States - epidemiology
/ Virginia
