Plain packaging: An opportunity for improved international policy coherence?

Abstract

This paper highlights two salient challenges at the intersection of tobacco control and macroeconomic policymaking: (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.