Human rights and Non-Communicable Diseases: Controlling Tobacco and Promoting Healthy Diets

Toebes, Brigit; Patterson, David

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3506769

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“…Under the right to health, states bear an international legal obligation to facilitate environments in which individuals can make autonomous decisions about their health. Recognizing the ways in which individual choice has been impaired by youth targeting, industry marketing and addiction enhancing (engineering cigarettes to increase addictiveness), states must progressively realize measures under the right to health to protect individuals from corporate interference with healthy decision makingadopting measures that discourage tobacco use and support cessation [11,12]. Cessation support helps to overcome the influence of nicotine addiction and supports the restoration of individual autonomy over health.…”

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Could international human rights obligations motivate countries to implement tobacco cessation support?

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Background and aims The World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) seeks to realize the right to health through national tobacco control policies. However, few states have met their obligations under Article 14 of the FCTC to develop evidence‐based policies to support tobacco cessation. This article examines how human rights obligations could provide a legal and moral basis for states to implement greater support for individuals to overcome their addiction to tobacco. Analysis The United Nations (UN) has a well‐established legal framework for promoting human rights, looking to the right to health to realize health autonomy. Where addiction undermines autonomy, it is widely acknowledged that addiction presents a significant barrier to cessation for individuals who use tobacco, undermining the right to health. The UN human rights system could, therefore, provide a complementary basis for monitoring state obligations under Article 14 of the FCTC, identifying challenges to FCTC implementation and motivating states to support tobacco cessation. Conclusions The United Nations' human rights system offers a mechanism that could be used to monitor Framework Convention on Tobacco Control implementation in national policy, facilitating accountability for the progressive realization of cessation support.

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Could international human rights obligations motivate countries to implement tobacco cessation support?

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“…Tobacco use remains a significant threat to health and in turn cripples national efforts at sustainable development (Toebes & Patterson, 2019). Tobacco use is implicated in many preventable communicable and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) which contribute to the double burden of diseases in low-and middle-income countries like Ghana.…”

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Advancement of Tobacco Control in Ghana: Barriers & Opportunities – A Brief Situation Report

Darko

Boateng

2022

GPJ

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Adequate tobacco control in the wake of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic cannot be overemphasized. As a Lower Middle-Income Country (LMIC) with peculiar needs, Ghana can strengthen her tobacco control regime by advancing country-specific and resilient programmes. The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) in partnership with WHO embarked on a national project to sensitize law enforcement officers on the existing tobacco control provisions whilst identifying control barriers peculiar to the various regional groupings. The main outcome of this meeting was the development of a tobacco control enforcement plan which defined the framework for regional participation in tobacco control. The next phase of this project is the sustainability of the regional tobacco control units and the exploration of the inclusion of traditional leadership in tobacco control policy implementation. FDA recognizes that there is an important role of Traditional Authorities, Law enforcement agencies and other state agencies as tobacco control advocates. Keywords: Ghana, Tobacco, enforcement, control

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“…It has had considerable impact on domestic tobacco legislation, in the sense many States Parties have amended their domestic tobacco legislation in order to comply with the treaty [39]. Many countries, however, are lagging behind in their implementation of international commitments, [40,41], while other States go beyond the FCTC by adopting further reaching measures, for example by prohibiting smoking in cars when a child is on board [42]. Legal researchers have increasingly begun to analyse what inspires legal compliance or ambitions, and in any case, the reasons or mechanisms for (non) implementation or (lack of) ambition deserves further understanding.…”

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A renewed call for transdisciplinary action on NCDs

Toebes

Hesselman

Mierau

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BMC Int Health Hum Rights

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Notwithstanding COVID-19, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) will be the leading cause of death in every region in the world by 2030. This contribution, which forms an introduction to our collection of articles in this journal, identifies elements for a transdisciplinary research agenda between law, public health, health economics and international relations aimed at designing concrete interventions to curb the NCD pandemic, both globally and domestically.

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Human rights and Non-Communicable Diseases: Controlling Tobacco and Promoting Healthy Diets

Cited by 3 publications

References 31 publications

Could international human rights obligations motivate countries to implement tobacco cessation support?

Could international human rights obligations motivate countries to implement tobacco cessation support?

Advancement of Tobacco Control in Ghana: Barriers & Opportunities – A Brief Situation Report

A renewed call for transdisciplinary action on NCDs

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