Magzamen S, Glantz S A
Institute for Health Policy Studies, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA.
Am J Public Health. 2001 Feb;91(2):245-52. doi: 10.2105/ajph.91.2.245.
This study examined the tobacco industry's tactics in the political, grassroots, and media arenas in attempting to subvert California's smoke-free bar law, and the efforts of health advocates to uphold and promote the law by using the same 3 channels.
Interviews with key informants involved in the development and implementation of the smoke-free bar law were conducted. Information was gathered from bill analyses, internal memoranda, tobacco industry documents, media articles, and press releases.
The tobacco industry worked both inside the legislature and through a public relations campaign to attempt to delay implementation of the law and to encourage noncompliance once the law was in effect. Health groups were able to uphold the law by framing the law as a health and worker safety issue. The health groups were less successful in pressing the state to implement the law.
It is possible to enact and defend smoke-free bar laws, but doing so requires a substantial and sustained commitment by health advocates. The tobacco industry will fight this latest generation of clean indoor air laws even more aggressively than general workplace laws.
本研究考察了烟草行业在政治、基层和媒体领域试图颠覆加利福尼亚州无烟酒吧法律的策略,以及健康倡导者通过同样的三个渠道维护和推广该法律所做的努力。
对参与无烟酒吧法律制定和实施的关键信息提供者进行了访谈。信息收集自法案分析、内部备忘录、烟草行业文件、媒体文章和新闻稿。
烟草行业在立法机构内部开展工作,并通过公关活动试图推迟该法律的实施,并在法律生效后鼓励不遵守行为。健康组织能够通过将该法律界定为健康和工人安全问题来维护该法律。健康组织在敦促该州实施该法律方面不太成功。
制定和捍卫无烟酒吧法律是有可能的,但这样做需要健康倡导者做出大量且持续的努力。烟草行业将比对待一般工作场所法律更积极地抵制这一代最新的室内空气清洁法律。