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- Title
Preemption in Tobacco Control: A Framework for Other Areas of Public Health.
- Authors
Crosbie, Eric; Schmidt, Laura A.
- Abstract
Preemption—when a higher level of government limits the authority of a lower level to enact new policies—has been devastating to tobacco control. We developed a preemption framework based on this experience for anticipating and responding to the possibility of preemption in other public health areas. We analyzed peer-reviewed literature, reports, and government documents pertaining to tobacco control preemption. We triangulated data and thematically analyzed them. Since the 1980s, tobacco companies have attempted to secure state preemption through front groups, lobbying key policymakers, inserting preemption into other legislation, and issuing legal threats and challenges. The tobacco control community responded by creating awareness of preemption through media advocacy, educating policymakers, mobilizing national collaborations, and expanding networks with the legal community. Ten of the 25 state smoke-free preemption laws have been fully repealed. Repeal, however, took an average of 11 years. State preemption has been detrimental to tobacco control by dividing the health community, weakening local authority, chilling public education and debate, and slowing local policy diffusion. Health scholars, advocates, and policymakers should use the framework to anticipate and prevent industry use of preemption in other public health areas.
- Subjects
EXCLUSIVE &; concurrent legislative powers; SMOKING prevention; TOBACCO laws; INDUSTRIES; INTERPROFESSIONAL relations; LOBBYING; MASS media; HEALTH policy; POLICY sciences; PUBLIC health; CONSUMER activism
- Publication
American Journal of Public Health, 2020, Vol 110, Issue 3, p345
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.2019.305473