Encyclopedia of Smoking and Tobacco

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Guide to Selected Topics
Encyclopedia of Smoking and Tobacco
Appendix 1: Contributed Essays
Women, Tobacco, and Health by Michele H. Bloch, M.D., Ph.D.
Unions: Labor's Role in Tobacco Control by Regina Carlson
The Tobacco Products Liability Project's Top 10 Tobacco Cases by Mark Gottlieb
SmokeLess States Coalitions and Tobacco Control by Thomas P. Houston, M.D.
Safe Cigarettes by John Slade, M.D.
Warning Labels: Legal Protection for the Tobacco Industry by Elizabeth M. Whelan
Appendix 2: Surgeon General's Reports 1964-1998
Appendix 3: Secondhand Smoke Timeline
Appendix 4: Tobacco Taxation in Countries of the European Union
Appendix 5: Workplace and Smoking: Selected Landmark Cases
Appendix 6: Ten Selected Tobacco Advertising Agencies
Chronology
Bibliography and Web Sites
Index

About the author

Arlene Hirschfelder, historian and educator, has been writing about tobacco for almost 20 years.

Product details

• Authors: Arlene B. Hirschfelder, Hirschfelder Arlene
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.10.1999
• EAN: 9781573562027
• ISBN: 978-1-57356-202-7
• No. of pages: 480
• Weight: 1049 g
• Subjects: Guides > Health > Miscellaneous; USA, Sociology, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, Sociology: customs & traditions, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Reference, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions, HISTORY / Reference, Illness & addiction: social aspects, c 1500 onwards to present day, Reference works, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Cultural studies: customs and traditions, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, Health and Wellness: Public Health