University of California, San Francisco, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, 3333 California Street Suite 420, San Francisco, CA 94143-0613, USA.
University of California, San Francisco, Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, 530 Parnassus Avenue, Suite 366 Library, San Francisco, CA 94143-1390, USA.
Soc Sci Med. 2014 Mar;104:1-5. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.11.005. Epub 2013 Nov 15.
In the 1990s several American states passed term limits on legislators with the stated intention of reducing the influence of wealthy industries on career legislators. Although term limits in the United States do not have a direct relationship to public health, the tobacco industry anticipated that term limits could have indirect effects by either limiting or expanding industry influence. We detail the strategy of the tobacco industry in the wake of term limits using internal tobacco company documents and a database of campaign contributions made to legislators in term limited states between 1988 and 2002. Despite some expectations that term limits would limit tobacco industry access to state legislators, term limits appear to have had the opposite effect.
20 世纪 90 年代,美国几个州对立法者实施了任期限制,其目的是减少富有行业对职业立法者的影响。虽然美国的任期限制与公共卫生没有直接关系,但烟草业预计任期限制可能会通过限制或扩大行业影响力而产生间接影响。我们利用烟草公司内部文件和 1988 年至 2002 年期间向任期有限制的州立法者提供的竞选捐款数据库,详细说明了任期限制出台后烟草业的策略。尽管有人预计任期限制会限制烟草业与州立法者的接触,但任期限制似乎产生了相反的效果。