Legal Strategies in Childhood Obesity Prevention Workshop Summary (2011) / Chapter Skim
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2 Legal Approaches in Other Areas
2 Legal Approaches in Other Areas
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Stephen Teret, professor and associate dean, Department of Health and Policy Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and director, Center for Law and the Public's Health, reviewed experiences in two of these areas: the use of air bags in automobiles and prevention of gun violence. Although food is a quite different commodity 7
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The lawsuit stated that if cars had been offered with air bags, either as standard equipment or as an option, perhaps this injured woman and many thousands of others would not have suffered severe and disabling injuries. Ten days into the trial, Ford Motor Company settled the case through a payment of $1.8 million.
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Supreme Court ruled that personal injury lawsuits against car makers for failure to install air bags could no longer be successfully brought because they are preempted by existing federal regulations. Preemption is an important consideration in the use of the law to protect public health, Teret noted.
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If guns were designed with safeguards that have existed for more than a century -- such as trigger locks, indicators that a bullet is in the chamber, or magazine disconnect devices that disable the gun when a bullet clip is removed -- fewer deaths from firearms would occur in the United States each year. Teret suggested that focusing legal and regulatory efforts at the early rather than later stages of the life of a gun would likely be more effective in reducing the incidence of gun violence.
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Commercial free speech (discussed in Chapter 5) is valued in the United States, but Teret identified marketing to children as a rich area for exploration with respect to legal intervention in the childhood obesity epidemic.
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