RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Nicotine conjugate vaccine: is there a right to a smoking future?
JF Journal of Medical Ethics
JO J Med Ethics
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Institute of Medical Ethics
SP 344
OP 345
DO 10.1136/jme.2002.001602
VO 30
IS 4
A1 A Hasman
A1 Søren Holm
YR 2004
UL http://jme.bmj.com/content/30/4/344.abstract
AB Tobacco consumption is believed to be one of the world’s greatest preventable health problems. According to the World Health Organisation, 1.1 billion people worldwide are addicted to nicotine with tobacco causing an estimated four million premature deaths every year. The development of a nicotine conjugate vaccine suggests that immunisation may hold promise as a future therapeutic and preventive strategy for tobacco smoking and nicotine addiction. Allowing parents to immunise their children against smoking could be an infringement of children’s right to an open future, however, and is not ethically unproblematic