ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book summarizes the implications for understanding the tobacco control movement and other social movements. It discusses the ways in which the movement has built on the social infrastructure of health professionals and organizations, and the interpenetration of the movement and the state. The book argues that the pattern of state-movement interpenetration has some generalizability beyond the tobacco control movement, and that it calls for a new or expanded model of the relationship between states and movements. It offers some comments on the future of the tobacco control movement, with special reference to the explosion of litigation in recent years, the development and growth of state tobacco control programs, and the issue of tobacco control in developing nations. The book shows that the tobacco control movement in Minnesota has benefited greatly from building on the existing infrastructure of health organizations and professionals.
