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Training the lawmakers
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"If only our country's health minister could have heard that
discussion!"
how often have frustrated tobacco control advocates said something like this after a particularly rich session at a
conference where all too many of the participants were recognised experts in the field, and none at all were politicians or their advisory officials. Most important, how often have such sentiments been
expressed when a conference has yet again agreed that prevention of
tobacco use is essentially a political struggle; getting the health
ministers and other senior lawmakers to sit down and hear why and how
to enact effective tobacco control legislation has seemed fine in
theory, but almost as difficult to achieve as the legislation itself.
At last there has been a major conference to try to remedy this. The
first international policy conference on children and tobacco took
place in the United States in Washington, DC, in March. Funded
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