Tobacco-Free Investment: Harnessing the Power of the Finance Industry in Comprehensive Tobacco Control

  • Bronwyn King
  • Clare Payne
  • Emily Stone St Vincent's Hospital Sydney

Abstract

Leveraging the power of the global financial sector is emerging as a powerful, targeted strategy in tobacco control. The tobacco epidemic has been in decline in many high income nations since the 1960s but shows few signs of abating in low and middle income nations, with the tobacco industry offsetting regulatory restrictions and shrinking markets in industrialised countries by actively promoting tobacco use in poorer countries with weaker tobacco control. Lung cancer rates and tobacco-related mortality statistics reflect these changes with levels declining in high income countries but yet to peak in low and middle income countries. This contrast calls for new approaches that can cross borders, transcend the barriers between legislative domains and offer a truly international approach. Tobacco Free Portfolios works collaboratively with the global finance sector to inform, advance and prioritise tobacco-free investment. This initiative aims to encourage finance leaders to reflect on and reconsider commercial relationships with the tobacco industry, urging them to be part of the solution when it comes to addressing one of greatest global challenges of our time.

Published
Mar 29, 2018
How to Cite
KING, Bronwyn; PAYNE, Clare; STONE, Emily. Tobacco-Free Investment: Harnessing the Power of the Finance Industry in Comprehensive Tobacco Control. QUT Law Review, [S.l.], v. 17, n. 2, p. 161-174, mar. 2018. ISSN 2201-7275. Available at: <https://lr.law.qut.edu.au/article/view/699>. Date accessed: 01 feb. 2021. doi: https://doi.org/10.5204/qutlr.v17i2.699.
Section
Special Issue on Plain Packaging of Tobacco Products
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