Hiilamo H T
Church Council/Diaconia and Social Responsibility, Satamakatu 11, 00161 Helsinki, Finland.
Tob Control. 2005 Feb;14(1):22-30. doi: 10.1136/tc.2004.007476.
To examine tobacco control implication of the first European product liability suit in Finland.
Systematic search of internal tobacco industry documents available on the internet and at the British American Tobacco Guildford Depository.
Despite legal loss, the litigation contributed to subsequent tobacco control legislation in Finland. The proceedings revealed that the industry had concealed the health hazards of its products and, despite indisputable evidence, continued to deny them. The positions taken by the industry rocked its reliability as a social actor and thus weakened its chances of influencing tobacco policy. Despite fierce opposition from the tobacco industry, tobacco products were included in the product liability legislation, tobacco was entered on the Finnish list of carcinogens, and an extensive Tobacco Act was passed in Parliament.
Tobacco litigation might not stand alone as a tool for public health policymaking but it may well stimulate national debate over the role of smoking in society and influence the policy agenda.
探讨芬兰首例欧洲产品责任诉讼对烟草控制的影响。
系统检索互联网上以及英美烟草吉尔福德档案室中可获取的烟草行业内部文件。
尽管在法律上败诉，但该诉讼推动了芬兰随后的烟草控制立法。诉讼程序显示，该行业隐瞒了其产品对健康的危害，并且尽管有确凿证据，仍继续予以否认。该行业所采取的立场动摇了其作为社会行为主体的可信度，从而削弱了其影响烟草政策的机会。尽管遭到烟草行业的激烈反对，但烟草产品仍被纳入产品责任立法，烟草被列入芬兰致癌物清单，议会还通过了一项全面的烟草法案。
烟草诉讼可能无法单独作为公共卫生政策制定的工具，但它很可能会激发全国范围内关于吸烟在社会中的作用的辩论，并影响政策议程。
