title: Plain packaging: an opportunity for improved international policy coherence?
abstract: This paper highlights two salient challenges at the intersection of tobacco control and macroeconomic policy-making: (i) the use of trade and investment disputes to undermine and/or stall tobacco control legislation and (ii) the inconsistency, and thus unpredictability, of country positions across the two spheres. In the interest of improving international policy coherence, the authors suggest possible solutions to these two challenges at the national and intergovernmental levels.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Hosmer House, 3630 Promenade Sir William Osler, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, H3G 1Y5 rlencuch@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Raphael
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lencucha
authors.affiliation: American Cancer Society, 250 Williams St. NW, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA.
authors.forename: Jeffrey
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Drope
mesh_terms: D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D011050:Policy Making; D011057:Politics; D019064:Product Packaging / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D011640:Public Policy; D012907:Smoking / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*
keywords: governance; healthy public policy; tobacco labeling; trade