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The 13th World Conference on Tobacco OR Health

Building capacity for a tobacco-free world

July 12-15, 2006, Washington, DC, USA



Thursday, July 13, 2006: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Room 209A (Convention Center)
The Politics Associated with Secondhand Smoke Policies
Moderator:Heather Selin (USA)
3:30 PMThe effectiveness of worksite tobacco-control campaigns by the Taiwanese government from 2003-2005
Mei-Lien Chen (Taiwan), Chiu-Jung Chen (Taiwan), Ruey-Yu Chen (Taiwan), Ming-Hsing Chen (Taiwan), Kun-Yu Zhao (Taiwan), I.-Fang Mao (Taiwan)
3:45 PMPress and Policy: The relationship between newspaper coverage of tobacco and attitudes towards Clean Indoor Air initiatives
Katherine Clegg Smith (USA), Michael Griswold (USA), Rachel Friedman Singer (USA), Catherine Siebel (USA), Frank J. Chaloupka (USA), Melanie Wakefield (Australia)
4:00 PMInformation Laundering: How an interest group and its congressional allies strategically used evidence to influence federal policies restricting smoking on aircraft
Daniel M. Cook (USA), Peggy L. Lopipero (USA), Lisa A. Bero (USA)
4:15 PMA compromise to accept? The swedish law on smoke-free restaurants
Ola Assarsson (Sweden)
4:30 PMUsing the Inter-American System of Human Rights to Protect Individuals from Exposure to Secondhand Smoke
Heather Selin (USA), Javier Vasquez (USA)
4:45 PMNational Clean Air Award: implementing a national initiative to increase provision of smoke free workplaces in the North East of England
Andy Graham (United Kingdom), Lisa Holland (United Kingdom), Ailsa M. Rutter (United Kingdom)

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