Encyclopedia of Smoking and Tobacco

by Hirschfelder, Arlene B.

• ISBN13: 9781573562027
• ISBN10: 1573562025
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-10-19
• Publisher: Greenwood Pub Group

Summary

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.

Author Biography

ARLENE B. HIRSCHFELDER is a historian and authority who has written extensively on smoking and tobacco.

Table of Contents

Preface vii<BR>

Acknowledgments x<BR>

Guide to Selected Topics xi<BR>

Encyclopedia of Smoking and Tobacco 1<BR>

Appendix 1: Contributed Essays 347<BR>

Women, Tobacco, and Health <BR>

Michele H. Bloch, M.D., Ph.D. 347 <BR>

Unions: Labor's Role in Tobacco Control <BR>

Regina Carlson 349<BR>

The Tobacco Products Liability Project's Top 10 Tobacco Cases <BR>

Mark Gottlieb 350<BR>

SmokeLess States Coalitions and Tobacco Control <BR>

Thomas P. Houston, M.D. 352<BR>

Safe Cigarettes <BR>

John Slade, M.D 353<BR>

Warning Labels: Legal Protection for the Tobacco Industry <BR>

Elizabeth M. Whelan 354<BR>

Appendix 2: Surgeon General's Reports 1964-1998 356<BR>

Appendix 3: Secondhand Smoke Timeline 362<BR>

Appendix 4: Tobacco Taxation in Countries of the European Union 364<BR>

Appendix 5: Workplace and Smoking: Selected Landmark Cases 365<BR>

Appendix 6: Ten Selected Tobacco Advertising Agencies 372<BR>

Chronology 373<BR>

Bibliography and Web Sites 383<BR>

Index 389