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Edited by Eric A Feldman, Ronald Bayer. Harvard University Press, 2004, pp 394. ISBN 0-674-01334-4
Tobacco policy and public health
With the cover befitting a crime thriller, Unfiltered delivers an honest, unfiltered discussion of contemporary policy debates in tobacco control. The book documents experiences from eight developed countries. These eight include tobacco control leaders Canada, Australia and USA, a mixed bag of European experiences (Denmark, France, and UK), and for contrast, Japan and Germany.
The editors offer several justifications for choosing these economically advanced democracies in that they share a broad commitment to liberal political values and demonstrate an interesting range of beliefs and practices with respect to privacy, autonomy, and paternalism. But there are examples of developing countries with liberal political values and autonomy such as India, the world’s largest democracy, South Africa, and the Philippines which go unmentioned. This is a pity because the issues discussed are …