Department of Health Behavior, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2012 May;9(5):1954-70. doi: 10.3390/ijerph9051954. Epub 2012 May 21.
We reviewed the adoption and implementation of smokefree policies in all Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) countries. Significant progress has been achieved among LAC countries since the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) was adopted in 2005. Both national and sub-national legislation have provided effective mechanisms to increase the fraction of the population protected from secondhand tobacco smoke. Civil society has actively promoted these policies and played a main role in enacting them and monitoring their enforcement. The tobacco industry, while continuing to oppose the approval and regulation of the laws at legislative and executive levels, has gone a step further by litigating against them in the Courts. As in the US and elsewhere, this litigation has failed to stop the legislation.
我们回顾了所有拉丁美洲和加勒比国家(LAC)采用和实施无烟政策的情况。自 2005 年世界卫生组织《烟草控制框架公约》(FCTC)通过以来,LAC 国家取得了重大进展。国家和次国家立法为增加受二手烟保护的人口比例提供了有效机制。民间社会积极推动这些政策,并在制定和监测其执行方面发挥了主要作用。烟草业虽然继续在立法和行政层面反对批准和监管这些法律,但在法庭上对这些法律提起诉讼,更进一步。与美国和其他地方一样,这场诉讼未能阻止立法。