Influence of Legal Context on Tobacco Industry Behavior

调查人员建议检查烟草、快餐和含糖饮料行业对 在法律和监管论坛上发表个人责任言论，许多公共卫生政策都是积极的 和负数，都被创造出来了。作为对法律背景的回应，烟草行业援引个人责任 在应对伤害时，用修辞将注意力从其行为上转移到个人身上。什么时候 作为立法和监管监督的基础，在司法程序中或在其他法律论坛和 政策形成，个人责任的概念在修辞上被用来掩盖或转移注意力 更大的结构性决定因素(包括有罪的行为者)，对公众健康造成不利影响的S。 调查人员将确定司法、监管和立法业务程序，以促进 烟草行业使用个人责任言论，以及那些抵制这种做法的程序 有利于分析健康行为的结构性决定因素的修辞。烟草业S个人 责任修辞也可以作为其他商业利益的典范，因为认识到 他们的产品正在危害公众健康，S。调查人员将审查司法、监管方面的修辞 快餐和含糖饮料行业在肥胖中所扮演的角色的立法论坛 并将他们的言辞与烟草行业的言辞进行比较。个人责任 相关新闻媒体报道中的言辞也将受到调查。 研究将围绕九个关键的法律和政策事件进行，它们将作为调查者发挥作用。 理论样本。其理论是，个人责任修辞的使用保护了在 司法、监管和立法论坛商业化地设计了健康行为的决定因素。在……里面 除了传统的法律和政策研究外，调查人员还将使用民族志内容分析来 检查包含内部行业烟草文档的数据集、生成的相关法律文档 法律论坛、新闻媒体报道、行业公关文件和其他行为记录 烟草、快餐和含糖饮料行业。调查人员将开发一种初始编码 该方案基于初步文献回顾和对已确定数据集中的文本样本的检查。 调查人员将在已确定的数据集的样本上测试编码。 研究结果将在同行评议出版物上发表的文章中进行描述。

The investigators propose to examine the tobacco, fast food and sweetened beverage industries¿ use of personal responsibility rhetoric in legal and regulatory forums where many public health policies, both positive and negative, are created. As a response to legal context, the tobacco industry invokes personal responsibility rhetoric to focus attention away from its conduct and toward the individual in responding to the harm. When used as the basis of legislative and regulatory oversight, in judicial proceedings, or in other forums of law and policy formation, the concept of personal responsibility exploited rhetorically to obscure or shift attention from larger structural determinants ¿ including culpable actors ¿ that adversely affect the public¿s health. The investigators will identify the judicial, regulatory and legislative operational processes that have facilitated the use of personal responsibility rhetoric by the tobacco industry and those processes that have resisted such rhetoric in favor of analyses of structural determinants of health behaviors. The tobacco industry¿s personal responsibility rhetoric may also serve as a model for other commercial interests faced with the recognition that their products are harming the public¿s health. The investigators will examine rhetoric in the judicial, regulatory and legislative forums by the fast food and sweetened beverage industries in their identified role in the obesity epidemic and compare their rhetoric with that deployed by the tobacco industry. Personal responsibility rhetoric in relevant news media coverage will also be investigated. Research will be oriented around nine key law and policy events, which will function as the investigators¿ theoretical samples. The theory is that the use of personal responsibility rhetoric shields from scrutiny in the judicial, regulatory and legislative forums commercially engineered determinants of health behavior. In addition to traditional law and policy research, the investigators will use ethnographic content analysis to examine datasets containing internal industry tobacco documents, legal documents generated in the relevant legal forums, news media coverage, industry public relations documents and other documentation of conduct by the tobacco, fast food and sweetened beverage industries. The investigators will develop an initial coding scheme based on a preliminary literature reviews and examination of samples of text in the identified datasets. The investigators will test the coding on samples from the identified datasets. The study findings will be described in articles to be published in peer-reviewed publications.