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  • Title: Legalism and tobacco control in the EU.
    Author: Jarman H.
    Journal: Eur J Public Health; 2018 Nov 01; 28(suppl_3):26-29. PubMed ID: 30383253.
    Abstract:
    Tobacco control policies rely heavily on law and are steeped in litigation. Examining the creation of tobacco control laws in the European Union, this article lays out the potential costs and benefits of legalism for public health practitioners and advocates. Legalism is a form of governance that relies heavily on the authority of law to settle political disputes, with consequences for the ways in which governments make, and advocates push for, public health policies. To the extent that legalism creates procedural problems and distortions in the content of public health policy, then the content of law and its making is a public health problem. On the other hand, litigation can also be a public health tool, and an enforceable, justiciable right to health is a powerful political and legal weapon in its own right.
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