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The new antismoking warning labels: a necessary step in the right direction
On June 21, health officials at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a series of nine graphic color warning labels that the tobacco industry will be required to include on the top-half...
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Workshop on Legal issues in Tobacco Control for Latin American Attorneys
The O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University, in collaboration with the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung...
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Tobacco Control and International Trade in Africa
Note: From the American Cancer Society’s Blog, The Global Fight Against Cancer “Tobacco Control and International Trade in Africa” (August 8, 2011) Representatives from 13 African countries learn new...
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Peruvian Constitutional Tribunal Upholds Constitutionality of Reformed Smoke...
Image from Hispanically Speaking News On July 19, 2011 the Constitutional Tribunal of Peru rejected the unconstitutionality challenge presented by Jaime Barco Roda on behalf of 5,000 Peruvian...
View ArticleA debate about the international criminalization of falsification of...
Neil Boister and Benn McGrady In a recent article in Journal of International Criminal Justice, we responded to a proposal by Amir Attaran, Roger Bate and Megan Kendall that a treaty should be...
View ArticleBriefing paper on tobacco product regulation and the WTO after US – Clove...
For those interested in matters of trade and health we have posted a briefing paper on the recent World Trade Organization panel report in US – Clove Cigarettes on the O’Neill Institute homepage...
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Lessons from the Industry
From Adweek In her opening remarks to the 8th Global Conference on Health Promotion, Margaret Chan, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned: [e]fforts to prevent non-communicable...
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Innovative Solutions for Complex Health Challenges: Our Past, Present, and...
We are delighted to present the Retrospective for the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University, Innovative Solutions for Complex Health Challenges: Our Past,...
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John Oliver: Jon Stewart’s legacy on public health
Last semester I taught a course on public health law. There was hardly an issue we covered that did not have an astute The Daily Show with Jon Stewart segment to help the students understand not just...
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Big Tobacco’s Challenge Goes Up In Smoke, Public Health Breathes Easy
This post was written by Neiloy Sircar, J.D.-LL.M Global Health Law Candidate 2017 and summer research assistant at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and Sarah Roache, Institute...
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Is There Any Reason to Allow Cigarette Companies to Send Coupons (or Any...
A recent study in the Nicotine & Tobacco Research journal confirms that the tobacco industry sends discount cigarette coupons to non-smokers in the USA and that some of those receiving the...
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