Hosted by the University of Bristol's Population Health Science Institute, this webinar series will focus on the theme of "Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Population Health: Bridging the Gaps for a Healthier Future."
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Abstract: As has been widely publicised, the Tobacco and Vapes Bill includes provisions to make an offence of selling tobacco products, herbal smoking products, and cigarette papers to persons born on or after 1st January 2009, and the buying of such products for such persons. These provisions have invited critical scepticism even amongst commentators who are broadly supportive of smoke free agendas, with challenges based both on practical and principled grounds. In this talk, I spell out seven sorts of reasons that suggest that the distinctive approach to age limits in the Bill is less problematic than such scepticism suggests.
Bio: John is Professor of Law in the Centre for Health, Law, and Society, at the University of Bristol Law School. His research combines legal analysis with approaches from moral and political theory; especially in the contexts of mental capacity law and within the philosophy of public health. He is a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, and the ethics committees of the BMJ and the UK Faculty of Public Health.
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