The Tobacco Book

by Moyer, David B.

• ISBN13: 9780865343825
• ISBN10: 0865343829
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-02-01
• Publisher: Sunstone Pr

Table of Contents

Preface	5	(2)
Scope of the Problem and Overall Death and Disability	7	(5)
Demographics of Tobacco Use	12	(11)
Mortality and Longevity Data	23	(1)
History of Tobacco	24	(44)
Environmental Tobacco Smoke	68	(19)
Asthma, Allergy, and Smoke Exposure	87	(5)
Lung Cancer	92	(8)
Other Cancers	100	(8)
Cardiovascular Disease	108	(10)
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease	118	(3)
Other Health Problems	121	(14)
Impotence	135	(2)
Physical Fitness and Carbon Monoxide	137	(2)
Pregnancy and Fertility	139	(12)
Children and Teen Smoking	151	(13)
Youth Access to Tobacco	164	(5)
Smokeless Tobacco	169	(11)
Pipes and Cigars	180	(8)
Tobacco Ingredients, Additives, and Radioactivity	188	(6)
Nicotine and Addiction	194	(16)
Low Tar and Nicotine Cigarettes, Health and Safety Issues	210	(5)
Smoking and Tobacco Cessation	215	(13)
Tobacco, Alcohol and Illicit Drugs	228	(4)
Women and Smoking	232	(6)
African Americans and Smoking	238	(4)
Tobacco and the Military	242	(6)
International	248	(52)
Advertising	300	(15)
The Tobacco Industry	315	(27)
Tobacco Farmers	342	(7)
Tobacco Exports, Imports	349	(4)
Smuggling	353	(6)
World Health Organization	359	(3)
The FDA, Tobacco Regulations and State Lawsuits	362	(8)
Political Issues	370	(30)
Legal Issues	400	(11)
Economic Issues	411	(15)
Taxation	426	(8)
Workplace, Restaurants and Airline Smoking Restrictions	434	(13)
Miscellaneous	447	(10)
Cigarettes and Fires	457	(2)
Tobacco and the Movies	459	(5)
Personalities, Celebrities and ``Famous Deaths''	464	(9)
Humor	473	(3)
Tobacco Control Organization Websites	476	(1)
Bibliography	477	(6)
Index	483