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Tobacco Control 2008;17:73-74; doi:10.1136/tc.2008.025106
Copyright © 2008 by the BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.

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Benefits and risks in ending regulatory exceptionalism for tobacco

Simon Chapman

School of Public Health, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia

Correspondence to:
Professor Simon Chapman, School of Public Health, Edward Ford Building A27, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia; sc@med.usyd.edu.au

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It has often been noted that the tobacco industry is cosseted by regulatory exceptionalism. Unlike food, drink and pharmaceuticals that are taken into the body, and doctors, dentists, podiatrists, tattooists, body piercers and even brothels whose work involves various gradations of body penetration, tobacco remains the only commercial product or service intended to be taken into the body which is not commonly subject to safety regulation standards. Those wanting to do things to other’s bodies have to be qualified, trained, inspected, tested and risk losing their rights to practice if breaching legislated standards. Drugs designed to save lives and enhance health are subject to elaborate regulatory controls and those selling them required to undertake degrees in pharmacy or medicine. In most nations, tobacco, which causes stratospheric death estimated to reach a billion this century,1 can be sold by anyone. Manufacturers are free to add any licit additive for whatever purpose . . . [Full text of this article]


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