1. Lessons from tobacco control for advocates of healthy transport.
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Mindell J
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- Accidents, Traffic economics, Accidents, Traffic legislation & jurisprudence, Accidents, Traffic trends, Adolescent, Adult, Age Distribution, Automobiles economics, Automobiles legislation & jurisprudence, Automobiles statistics & numerical data, Developing Countries, Europe epidemiology, Female, Forecasting, Humans, Licensure economics, Licensure statistics & numerical data, Licensure trends, Male, Mass Media legislation & jurisprudence, Mass Media trends, Middle Aged, Politics, Sex Distribution, Smoking economics, Smoking legislation & jurisprudence, Tobacco Industry economics, Tobacco Industry legislation & jurisprudence, Tobacco Industry statistics & numerical data, Tobacco Industry trends, Transportation economics, Transportation legislation & jurisprudence, Accidents, Traffic statistics & numerical data, Consumer Advocacy economics, Consumer Advocacy legislation & jurisprudence, Consumer Advocacy trends, Health Policy economics, Health Policy legislation & jurisprudence, Health Policy trends, Health Promotion organization & administration, Public Health economics, Public Health legislation & jurisprudence, Public Health trends, Smoking adverse effects, Smoking epidemiology, Transportation statistics & numerical data
- Abstract
Many parallels can be drawn between cigarettes and motor vehicles, smoking and car driving, and the tobacco and the auto/oil industries. Those promoting healthy and sustainable transport policies can learn lessons from tobacco control activities over the past 50 years. Evidence-based legislation is more effective than negotiated voluntary agreements between industry and government. Media advocacy is crucial to reframe the issues to allow changes in national policies that facilitate healthier choices. Worthwhile public health policies seen as a threat by multinational companies will be opposed by them but active national and international networks of healthcare professionals, voluntary organizations, charities and their supporters can match the political power of these industries.
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- 2001
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