Responding to US executive orders and Trump 2.0: Ideological language bans and attempts to suppress science will not obscure the tobacco epidemic's foundations of exploitation and inequity

Marita Hefler

doi:10.1136/tc-2025-059437

Responding to US executive orders and Trump 2.0: Ideological language bans and attempts to suppress science will not obscure the tobacco epidemic's foundations of exploitation and inequity

Marita Hefler

College of Medicine and Public Health

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Abstract

The second Trump administration in the USA is going beyond even the most pessimistic fears of many in the global health community. Chaos has been the defining characteristic of its early weeks,1 with savage cuts to health research, agencies and programmes; attempts to prevent, retract or amend scientific publications; deletion of health databases; and orders against language and priorities deemed unpalatably ‘woke’. Together with the US withdrawal from the WHO and the dismantling of USAID (US Agency for International Development),1–3 the tobacco control and wider public health landscape in the USA and globally has changed dramatically and with shocking rapidity.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	141-142
Number of pages	2
Journal	Tobacco Control
Volume	34
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1136/tc-2025-059437
Publication status	Published - Mar 2025

Keywords

Advocacy
Public policy
Tobacco industry
Trump

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Responding to US executive orders and Trump 2.0: Ideological language bans and attempts to suppress science will not obscure the tobacco epidemic's foundations of exploitation and inequity

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