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Smoke, don't smoke – two steps forward one step back

Letter from Brazil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

John Dunn  and
Ronaldo R. Laranjeira
Ronaldo R. Laranjeira
Affiliation:
UNIAD, Departamento de Psiquiatria, Escola Paulista de Medicina, UNIFESP, Rua Botucatu, 740, São Paulo – SP, Brazil, 04023–900
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The mayor of Sao Paulo, Paulo Maluf, has a bullish approach to arguing and is not renowned for his subtlety. Despite this he has been a key campaigner and instigator of various public health policies that form part of an international “healthy city” initiative. The most successful of these has been the introduction of a law making the use of car seat belts compulsory, which has led to a massive reduction in the number of fatal road traffic accidents. An attempt to prohibit cigarette smoking in restaurants has been less successful owing to a number of legal challenges that have left the legislation in a consitutional and legal limbo – but the fight goes on.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 20 , Issue 11 , November 1996 , pp. 688 - 689
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