Public Health and Plain Packaging of Cigarettes

Legal Issues

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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Beskrivning

Tobacco use represents a critical global health challenge. The World Health Organization estimates that tobacco kills nearly 6 million people a year, with the toll expected to rise to 8 million annually over the next two decades. This detailed book, written by health and legal experts from institutions around the globe, examines legal issues arising from Australia's world-first introduction of mandatory plain packaging of tobacco products. The book offers an in-depth exploration of relevant domestic and international legal questions in fields such as intellectual property, constitutional law, health, trade and investment. The authors' analysis sheds light on broader questions relating to the capacity of governments to regulate tobacco products and the tobacco industry, and to regulate in the interests of public health more generally. The answers to these questions are of vital interest not only to Australia but also to the international community, with states' regulatory sovereignty increasingly being challenged in local and international courts and tribunals. This timely study is designed to assist international organizations, NGOs, policymakers, and scholars in law, medicine and health-related areas. Health professionals and advisors will also find much of interest here. Contributors: A. Alemanno, G. Ayres, E. Bonadio, J. Bosland, S. Chapman, M. Davison, S. Evans, T.A. Faunce, B. Freeman, K. Lannan, J. Liberman, B. McGrady, A.D. Mitchell, M. Scollo, T. Voon

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-08-31
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Förlag:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:9780857939425

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Edited by Tania Voon, Professor and Associate Dean (Research), Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, Andrew D. Mitchell, formerly Professor, Faculty of Law, Monash University and Jonathan Liberman, Director, McCabe Centre for Law and Cancer, a joint initiative of Cancer Council Victoria and Union for International Cancer Control, Australia with Glyn Ayres, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, Australia

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‘If you’re interested in tobacco regulation in the international arena, buy this book. With its massive array of research resources, including extensive bibliography and lists of legal instruments, documents, cases and awards, it will certainly assist and inform practitioners, scholars and policy makers in law, medicine and public health worldwide.’

Innehållsförteckning

Contents:1. IntroductionTania Voon2. The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: The International Context for Plain PackagingKate Lannan3. Plain Tobacco Packaging in Australia: The Historical and Social ContextJonathan Liberman, Michelle Scollo, Becky Freeman and Simon Chapman4. Plain Packaging of Cigarettes and Constitutional Property RightsSimon Evans and Jason Bosland5. The Legitimacy of Plain Packaging under International Intellectual Property Law: Why there is no Right to Use a Trademark under Either the Paris Convention or the TRIPS AgreementMark Davison6. Implications of WTO Law for Plain Packaging of Tobacco ProductsTania Voon and Andrew D. Mitchell 7. Implications of International Investment Law for Plain Tobacco Packaging: Lessons from the Hong Kong–Australia BIT Tania Voon and Andrew D. Mitchell8. Implications of Ongoing Trade and Investment Disputes Concerning Tobacco: Philip Morris v Uruguay Benn McGrady9. Plain Packaging in a Broader Regulatory Framework: Preventing False Claims and Investor–State LobbyingThomas A. Faunce 10. Plain Packaging of Cigarettes under EU LawAlberto Alemanno and Enrico BonadioBibliographyIndex