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Tobacco, Arlene Hirschfelder

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Tobacco

bibliography

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Arlene Hirschfelder

Health and medical issues today

Overview: With calls for greater government regulation of tobacco culminating in the historic June 2009 passage of federal antismoking legislation, Tobacco could not be more timely. It is the most authoritative and accessible volume available on the evolution of tobacco consumption as well as efforts to protect consumers from its dangers. Tobacco focuses on five key issues: tobacco excise taxation and health policy; the often misleading advertising of cigarettes and "low tar/nicotine" alternatives; the role of the Food and Drug Administration in regulating tobacco; education and prevention efforts aimed at children and teens; and environmental tobacco health risks, including second hand smoke. It is an eye-opening introduction to the entire history of efforts to regulate tobacco-from its beginnings in the Progressive Era of the early 20th century to recent efforts to uncover suppressed medical reports, ban smoking ads, and get smoking out of the movies

Demography of tobacco users -- Tobacco use, health risks, and disease -- Public health and tobacco -- U.S. Surgeons General, tobacco, and public health -- Tobacco advertising and health -- Tobacco excise taxation and health policy -- Filtered ("low-tar/nicotine") cigarettes, advertising, and health risks -- The Food and Drug Administration, tobacco regulation, and health -- Preventing/reducing tobacco use by children and teens -- Environmental tobacco smoke and health risks