Harmful Marketing Action Circle

I recently published an op-ed on the harmful practices of Facebook and their similarity to harmful marketing practices in a number of other industries. I had already published a set of essays on harmful marketing practices in the tobacco industry, the food industry, the gun industry, the financial industry, the fossil fuel industry, and the pharmaceutical industry. I drew on those to make the case for the need for standards on regulating corporations so that harmful practices are not profitable practices. I attach a paper that proposes standards for regulation.

A colleague of mine from the National Institute on Drug Abuse wrote to me and said that she had never thought of marketing a social determinant of health. Since it is clear that much more attention is being given to social determinants and has been true in the past, it seems to me that it is important to ensure that…