Ted Marmor, Other Experts, To Discuss Global Tobacco Issues

5/28/2004

From: Ira R. Allen of the Center for the Advancement of Health, 202-387-2829

News Advisory:

Two leading health policy experts, Ted Marmor of Yale University and Allan Brandt of Harvard Medical School, will join the editors of a new book on a panel about the battle against smoking June 1, from 4 p.m to 5:30 p.m. in the First Amendment Lounge of the National Press Club.

The book, "Unfiltered," chronicles the political, social, legal and ethical conflicts over tobacco control in eight nations and provides an international and comparative context for understanding the recent conflicts over global tobacco control policy and public health. The volume focuses on three policy issues central to the public health campaign against tobacco: bans or restrictions on advertising, limits on where smoking can occur and the imposition of taxes on the purchase of tobacco products.

Unfiltered is published by Harvard University Press and edited by Eric A. Feldman of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Ronald Bayer of the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. It brings together the work of 15 experts in public health policy and is the result of a multiyear study funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Substance Abuse Policy Research Program.

A reception follows the panel discussion.

Marmor has written and consulted extensively on health, welfare and social policy issues. He has published more than 100 articles in a wide range of scholarly journals, as well as being a frequent op-ed contributor to US and Canadian newspapers.

Brandt is a professor of the history of medicine at Harvard Medical School and is an expert on the social and ethical aspects of health, disease and medical practices.

The panel discussion and reception are sponsored by the Center for the Advancement of Health, a nonprofit organization that promotes greater understanding of the psychological, behavioral, social and environmental determinants of health. The Center advocates the highest quality research and communicates it to the medical community and the public.