2018
DOI: 10.1590/0102-311x00017317
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Abstract: This study analyzes Brazil's tobacco control policy from 1986 to 2016, seeking to describe the policy's history and discuss its achievements, limits, and challenges. The study adopted a political economics approach and contributions from public policy analysis. Data were based on a search of the literature, documents, and secondary sources and semi-structured interviews with stakeholders involved in the policy. Factors related to the domestic and international contexts, the political process, and the policy's … Show more

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“…Brazil's commitment to tobacco control is indisputable, as it was one of the first countries to sign the “Framework Convention on Tobacco Control” ( 10 ) . However, control actions are not only modifying the prevalence of smokers but also their distribution.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Brazil's commitment to tobacco control is indisputable, as it was one of the first countries to sign the “Framework Convention on Tobacco Control” ( 10 ) . However, control actions are not only modifying the prevalence of smokers but also their distribution.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In Brazil, comprehensive tobacco control policies have been implemented over the past three decades and were intensified in 2005 with the ratification of World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) [15]. However, despite the considerable decline in prevalence overall and among women (25.3% in 1989 to 11.2 in 2013) [16–18], the number of maternal-fetal deaths in this period was devastating.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Through this Advisory Group, medical doctors and influential senators proposed several policies prohibiting the usage of tobacco products in public places, private areas, public transportation, and in designated areas; this group built a consensus and presented a bill on these policy ideas in 1986, which was presented to the Congress and President José Sarney (Jaques, 2010). Moreover, the Advisor Group recommended and contributed to the formation of Brazil's firstnational program for tobacco control in 1986 (and provided subsequent technical assistance to it; Portes et al, 2018b), as well as creating Brazil's first national day to combat smoking campaign (Jaques, 2010). When it came to tobacco control, as early as 1996, NGOs also played a prominent role in helping emphasise the creation of national prevention programmes through the first Brazilian Congress for Tobacco Control (Iglesias et al, 2007).…”
Section: Brazilmentioning
confidence: 99%