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When Mexico City passed a 100% smoke-free law in 2008, the tobacco industry challenged it in the Supreme Court, which rejected the challenge, citing Article 4 of the Mexican Constitution, which grants and protects the "right to health." As a former Philip Morris executive once said, "a sneeze in one country today causes international pneumonia tomorrow." To hedge against health harming industries, other countries in Latin America and elsewhere should adopt a commercial determinants approach, review industry documents to expose cross-industry strategies, and proactively anticipate and reject industry legal threats and challenges.
Normally, when the executive branch engages in policymaking, those policies are governed by a series of rules aimed at ensuring public participationboth so that the public can offer their ideas at possible solutions, but also to ensure that the government isnt abusing its powers
Warmth spreading from the shoulders down, slow enough that you don't notice until it's already happened
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