Tobacco control, cessation and prevention are addressed through a variety of interventions and policies. Recently, policy has included increased taxation on tobacco products and bans on cigarette smoking in commercial and public spaces.
These policies have met with varying degrees of success, depending on the support they have and barriers they face. Unfunded mandates or policies that are approved with insufficient funding or enforcement mechanisms are classic IR policy challenges.
While the policy or intervention itself has proven efficacious, implementation is failing to realize expected benefits. Somewhere, something in the implementation process or local context is inhibiting success of the policy as written.
IR can explore this and address the challenges to improve the effectiveness of the policy on changing tobacco-smoking behaviors.
Example of Tobacco Policy Challenges in IR