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July 2009, Vol 99, No. 7 | American Journal of Public Health 1159
© 2009 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2009.160267

LETTERS

JARVIE AND MALONE RESPOND

Jill A. Jarvie, MSN, RN and Ruth E. Malone, PhD, RN

Jill A. Jarvie is with the San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California. Ruth E. Malone is with the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco.

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

Desapriya et al. make several important points about the dangers of smoking in cars, particularly regarding the risks to nonsmokers; we agree that it is preferable that people not smoke in cars. However, our article examined the ethical principles under which policy intervention in this area would be justifiable. Our analysis showed that banning smoking in cars carrying children is ethically justifiable because children are not fully autonomous; thus, they are unable to act to protect their own interests. The same argument might be applied in situations where women are not fully autonomous because of social, economic, cultural, or other . . . [Full Text]






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