Synopses & Reviews
Here's a comprehensive reference guide that gives readers the entire story about the volatile issue of smoking in North America from the 1600s to the present. This encyclopedia is the ideal source for understanding today's controversies in a historical context. It offers something for everyone, covering social, legal, medical, science, business, and international issues. The A-Z format offers nearly 600 entries (400-800 words each), plus charts, tables, a list of selected topics, and more than 70 photographs. Its chronology starts with Columbus and continues through recent lawsuits. And its appendixes cover a wide range of information, from Surgeon General's reports, to essays by expert contributors, to landmark legal cases regarding workplace issues.
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...Hirschfelder offers much to those interested in smoking and tobacco....many useful tidbits of information about tobacco....All libraries.Choice
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For all libraries.Library Journal
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The A-Z format allows for easy navigation, as does the complete index....I found the Chronology section especially helpful because it put the surplus of information into an easy-to-read format. Because of its accurate and current information, this encyclopedia would be an excellent research tool, perhaps even a tool to discourage smoking by deglamorizing tobacco's appeal. This book would appeal to non-smokers and smokers alike, from students to health-care professionals.Book Report
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This well-written and interesting book could be usefully placed in many locations, including libraries, health workers' offices, and educational institutions.ARBA
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This book would be a very good resource for high school or above. Recommended for any library.E-Streams
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Comprehensive, objective, accurate and written so that it can be understood by high school students, on up through adults.Pennsylvania School Librarian's Association
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-388) and index.
About the Author
ARLENE B. HIRSCHFELDER is a historian and authority who has written extensively on smoking and tobacco.
Table 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