Workers' Health
Why Antismoking Programs Have Not Caught Fire
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21048982 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joyce Bermel (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 4-4 |
| Publication date | 1984-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Hastings Center Report (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0093-0334 • E-ISSN: 1552-146X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3561154 |
| PMID | 11644159 |
| OpenAlex | W2434910700 |
| Language | EN |
A study by Diana Chapman Walsh for the Hastings Center (see "Corporate smoking policies: a review and analysis," Journal of Occupational Medicine, Jan 1984) found that employers' attitudes towards smoking are ambivalent. Corporate, as well as public, policy is influenced by relationships with the tobacco industry. The coercive nature of effective antismoking programs raises the ethical question of what restrictions should be placed on individual liberty in the name of some overriding good
Ambivalence · Political science · Public health · Public relations · Tobacco control · Tobacco industry · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · School Health and Nursing Education · Social and Educational Sciences · Social Psychology · Workplace Health and Well-being
| Highly cited | No |
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