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Overview
Tobacco addresses the many interrelated controversies surrounding the historical and current use of tobacco and presents a clear, objective, and thorough treatment of this contentious public health and legal issue.
The American Indians valued tobacco as a wonder drug. When Rodrigo de Jerez, who accompanied Christopher Columbus on his maiden voyage of 1492, returbaned to Spain with tobacco, he was accused of associating with Satan and imprisoned when his compatriots saw smoke coming out of his nose.
This book covers everything from the history of tobacco to health and social issues such as targeting children. Biographical sketches of key personalities associated with tobacco range from Thomas Edison, who refused to hire anybody who smoked cigarettes, to Jean Nicot, the French Ambassador to Portugal in the mid-1500s, from whose name the word nicotine is derived. This title takes the reader through the myriad of issues that make up the tobacco debate in a clear and unbiased way.
The American Indians valued tobacco as a wonder drug. When Rodrigo de Jerez, who accompanied Christopher Columbus on his maiden voyage of 1492, returbaned to Spain with tobacco, he was accused of associating with Satan and imprisoned when his compatriots saw smoke coming out of his nose.
This book covers everything from the history of tobacco to health and social issues such as targeting children. Biographical sketches of key personalities associated with tobacco range from Thomas Edison, who refused to hire anybody who smoked cigarettes, to Jean Nicot, the French Ambassador to Portugal in the mid-1500s, from whose name the word nicotine is derived. This title takes the reader through the myriad of issues that make up the tobacco debate in a clear and unbiased way.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780874369670 |
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Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic |
Publication date: | 11/20/2001 |
Series: | Contemporary World Issues |
Pages: | 419 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.94(d) |
Age Range: | 12 - 18 Years |
About the Author
Harold V. Cordry is a professional jourbanalist and editor.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments | xi | |
1 | Overview | 1 |
The Rise of Tobacco in America | 3 | |
Filter Cigarettes and the Tar Derby | 10 | |
Surgeon General's Report of 1964 | 12 | |
Other Surgeon General and PHS Reports Relating to Tobacco | 14 | |
The Tobacco Industry Besieged | 16 | |
Health Risks | 26 | |
Nicotine and Pharmacology | 32 | |
Prevalence of and Trends in Tobacco Use | 38 | |
Underage Tobacco Use | 41 | |
Prevention | 49 | |
Quitting | 51 | |
Tobacco Use Worldwide | 54 | |
The Future of Tobacco | 56 | |
Issues and Topics for Research | 56 | |
References | 64 | |
2 | Chronology | 73 |
3 | Biographical Sketches | 119 |
4 | Documents | 141 |
"State-Specific Prevalence of Current Cigarette and Cigar Smoking among Adults--United States, December 18, 1998," | 141 | |
"Cigarette Smoking among American Teens Continues Gradual Decline": News Release and Data | 148 | |
"Health Effects of Smoking among Young People," | 155 | |
"Magazines with High Youth Readership in Which Philip Morris Advertises," | 157 | |
"When Quitting Seems Hard," | 158 | |
"Don't Let Another Year Go Up in Smoke: Quit Tips," | 160 | |
"Cigarettes Should Be Regulated Like Other Drugs, Says Director-General," | 162 | |
"Targeting Tobacco Use: The Nation's Leading Cause of Death," | 164 | |
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 | 171 | |
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Prevention | 172 | |
Directions in Development--Curbing the Epidemic: Governments and the Economics of Tobacco Control | 174 | |
Excerpt from "The European Code against Cancer," | 185 | |
"African Americans and Tobacco," | 188 | |
"Facts You Should Know," | 191 | |
"Environmental Tobacco Smoke Seriously Endangers Children's Health," | 193 | |
Secondhand Smoke: "How Big a Lung Cancer Risk for Adults?" | 195 | |
Secondhand Smoke: "The Risks to Children Are Widely Acknowledged | 196 | |
"Tobacco Free Initiative," | 197 | |
"Tobacco Epidemic: Health Dimensions," | 199 | |
"Tobacco Epidemic: Much More Than a Health Issue," | 204 | |
"The Tobacco Epidemic in Latin America," | 208 | |
"The Tobacco Industry's Youth Anti-Tobacco Programs," | 212 | |
"Tobacco Use by Children: A Paediatric Disease," | 219 | |
"Tobacco and Kids," | 222 | |
"Nicotine Addiction in Adolescence," | 226 | |
Table of Consumption Data | 228 | |
"Smokeless Tobacco: A Dangerous Alternative," | 230 | |
"Young Women and Smoking," | 233 | |
Warning Label Laws and Their Labels | 239 | |
"Framework Convention on Tobacco Control," | 241 | |
5 | Directory of Organizations and Agencies | 243 |
6 | Selected Print Resources | 283 |
Bibliographies and Databases | 283 | |
Periodicals | 283 | |
Books, Reports, and Pamphlets | 284 | |
Publications Available from Organizations and Agencies | 296 | |
Selected Tobacco Industry Documents | 309 | |
7 | Selected Nonprint Resources | 327 |
Videos | 327 | |
Internet Resources | 356 | |
Abbreviations and Acronyms | 385 | |
Index | 401 | |
About the Author | 419 |
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