title: Businesses' voluntary pro-health tobacco policies: a review and research agenda.
abstract: Research on the role of businesses in tobacco control has focused primarily on retailers, advertising firms and the hospitality industry, all of which have tended to support tobacco industry interests and resist effective tobacco control policies. However, in several countries, businesses have a history of voluntarily adopting tobacco-related policies that may advance tobacco control objectives. These phenomena have received little research attention. Existing literature on businesses ending tobacco sales, instituting voluntary workplace smoking restrictions and establishing non-smoker only hiring policies was reviewed. A research agenda on voluntary business initiatives would enhance and complement research on mandatory tobacco control policies by identifying new advocacy opportunities; suggesting avenues for strengthening or reinforcing existing policy initiatives; laying the groundwork for new mandatory policies; helping to inform ethical debates about contentious voluntary policies; and contributing to a better understanding of how alliances between the tobacco industry and other businesses might be weakened.
authors.affiliation: Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, California 94118, USA. patricia.mcdaniel@ucsf.edu
authors.forename: Patricia A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: McDaniel
authors.forename: Ruth E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Malone
mesh_terms: D003132:Commerce / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D016272:Occupational Health; D010560:Personnel Selection / Q000379:methods; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D012927:Social Control, Informal; D014028:Tobacco Smoke Pollution / Q000517:prevention & control*; D017132:Workplace / Q000458:organization & administration
chemical_list: D014028:Tobacco Smoke Pollution