Fighting a tobacco-tax rollback: A political analysis of the 1994 cigarette contraband crisis in Canada
Fighting a tobacco-tax rollback: A political analysis of the 1994 cigarette contraband crisis in Canada
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DOI：
10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200060
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发表时间：
2006-01-01
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Bergeron, P
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作者：
Breton, E;Richard, L;Bergeron, P
我们确定了导致地方政府（加拿大魁北克）选择减少烟草税以打击烟草走私的因素。然后，我们探讨了魁北克的烟草税回滚对其烟草控制政策的影响。我们使用案例研究设计和多种数据来源进行定性研究。我们在数据收集和分析方面采用了倡导联盟框架。倡导降低烟草税的人以一种赢得了一系列行为者支持的方式描述了走私问题。然而，反烟草活动人士成功地说服了政府加大对烟草控制的投资。这些新资源有助于提高活动人士推动立法措施的能力。我们的方法揭示了烟草业让政府降低烟草税的策略。魁北克提供了一个控烟积极分子如何将失败转化为全面控烟政策基石的例子。
We identify factors that led a regional government (Quebec, Canada) to opt for a reduction of its tobacco tax to combat tobacco smuggling. Then we explore the fallout of Quebec's tobacco-tax rollback on its tobacco control policy. We conducted qualitative research using a case-study design and multiple sources of data. We applied the Advocacy Coalition Framework in respect of data collection and analysis. Advocates of the tobacco-tax rollback framed the contraband problem in a way that won the support of an array of actors. However, anti-tobacco activists succeeded in convincing the government to invest more in tobacco control. The new resources were instrumental in enhancing the activists' ability to promote legislative measures. Our approach sheds light on the tobacco industry's strategy to have governments reducing their tobacco tax. Quebec offers an example of how tobacco control activists can transform defeat into the cornerstone of a comprehensive tobacco control policy.