Regulating Lifestyle Risks: The EU, Alcohol, Tobacco and Unhealthy Diets

Regulating Lifestyle Risks: The EU, Alcohol, Tobacco and Unhealthy Diets - United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2014. - xxiv, 376p.

This collection of essays look at the role the European Union could and should play in promoting healthier lifestyles, in light of the moral, philosophical, legal and political challenges associated with the regulation of individual choices.

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Regulating lifestyles
PART I. The role of information in 'pushing and shoving' consumers of tobacco and alcohol to make healthy lifestyle choices
Regulating consumer information
The regulation of marketing practices for tobacco, alcoholic beverages and food high in fat, sugar and salt
Taxation and economic incentives
Compensating non-communicable diseases
PART II The legality of the EU lifestyle regulatory intervention
Between a rock and a hard place
Towards an EU addiction policy
The role of the principle of subsidiarity in the EU's lifestyle risk policy
The impact of lifestyle regulation on intellectual property
Competition law implications of private regulation in lifestyle policy
EU lifestyle policy and international law
PART III The future of EU lifestyle regulation
The EU Platform and the EU forum
Nudging healthier lifestyles
Using outcome regulation to contend with lifestyle risks in Europe

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