| Description |
xii, 419 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
ABC-CLIO's contemporary world issues series |
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Contemporary world issues.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Overview: Rise of tobacco in America -- Filter cigarettes and the tar derby -- Surgeon general's report of 1964 -- Other surgeon general and PHS reports relating to tobacco -- Tobacco industry besieged -- Health risks - Nicotine and pharmacology -- Prevalence of and trends in tobacco use -- Underage tobacco use -- Prevention -- Quitting -- Tobacco use worldwide -- Future of tobacco -- Issues and topics for research -- References -- Chronology -- Biographical sketches -- Documents: "State-specific prevalence of current cigarette and cigar smoking among adults" - United States, December 18, 1998" -- "Cigarette smoking among American teens continues gradual decline": news release and data -- "Health effects of smoking among young people" -- "Magazines with high youth readership in which Phillip Morris advertises" -- "When quitting seems hard" -- "Don't let another year go up in smoke: quit tips" -- "'Cigarettes should be regulated like other drugs' says Director General" -- "Targeting tobacco use: nation's leading cause of death" -- Statement by President Clinton (March 21, 2000) in response to the Supreme Court ruling that the FDA does not have the authority to regulate tobacco -- Alcohol, tobacco and other drug prevention -- Directions in development-curbing the epidemic: governments and the economics of tobacco control -- Excerpt from "European Code against Cancer" --"African Americans and tobacco" -- "Facts you should know" -- "Environmental tobacco smoke seriously endangers children's health" -- Secondhand smoke: "How big a lung cancer risk for adults?" -- Secondhand smoke: "The risks to children are widely acknowledged" -- "Tobacco free initiative" -- "Tobacco epidemic: health dimensions" -- "Tobacco epidemic: much more than a health issue" -- "Tobacco epidemic in Latin America" -- "Tobacco industry's youth anti-tobacco programs" -- "Tobacco use by children: pediatric disease" -- Tobacco and kids" -- "Nicotine addiction in adolescents" -- Table of consumption data -- "Smokeless tobacco: dangerous alternative" -- "Young women and smoking" -- Warning label laws and their labels -- "Framework convention on tobacco control" -- Directory of organizations and agencies -- Selected print resources: Bibliographies and databases -- Periodicals -- Books, reports and pamphlets -- Publications available from organizations and agencies -- Selected tobacco industry documents -- Selected nonprint resources: Videos -- Internet resources -- Abbreviations and acronyms. |
| Summary |
Contains primary source material. |
| Form |
Available online and in print. |
| Subject |
Tobacco use -- Information resources.
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Antismoking movement -- Information resources.
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Trials (Products liability) -- United States -- Information resources.
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Products liability -- Tobacco -- United States -- Information resources.
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Tobacco industry -- Law and legislation -- United States -- Information resources.
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Tobacco Industry -- history.
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Smoking -- adverse effects -- Resource Guides.
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Nicotiana -- adverse effects -- Resource Guides.
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| ISBN |
9780874369670 alkaline paper |
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0874369673 alkaline paper |
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