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Unfiltered : Conflicts over Tobacco Policy and Public Health / Eric Feldman, Ronald Bayer.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]Copyright date: 2004Description: 1 online resource (404 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674036789
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.29/6561 22
LOC classification:
  • HD9130.6 .U54 2004
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction: Liberal States, Public Health, and the Tobacco Question -- 1. Children and Bystanders First: The Ethics and Politics of Tobacco Control in the United States -- 2. The Limits of Tolerance: Cigarettes, Politics, and Society in Japan -- 3. Rights and Public Health in the Balance: Tobacco Control in Canada -- 4. The Politics of Tobacco Control in Australia: International Template? -- 5. Militants,Manufacturers, and Governments: Postwar Smoking Policy in the United Kingdom -- 6. Liberté, Egalité, Fumée: Smoking and Tobacco Control in France -- 7. Between Paternalism and Voluntarism: Tobacco Consumption and Tobacco Control in Germany -- 8. Holy Smoke, No More? Tobacco Control in Denmark -- 9. Tobacco-Control Policy in the European Union -- 10. Difference and Diffusion: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Rise of Anti-Tobacco Policies -- 11. Tobacco Control in Comparative Perspective: Eight Nations in Search of an Explanation -- Conclusion: Lessons from the Comparative Study of Tobacco Control -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: Tobacco, among the most popular consumer products of the twentieth century, is under attack. Once a behavior that knew no social bounds, cigarette smoking has been transformed into an activity that reflects sharp differences in social status. Unfiltered tells the story of how anti-smoking advocates, public health professionals, bureaucrats, and tobacco corporations have clashed over smoking regulation. The nations discussed in this book--Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States--restrict tobacco advertising, tax tobacco products, and limit where smoking is permitted. Each is also struggling to shape a tobacco policy that ensures corporate accountability, protects individual liberty, and asserts the state's public health power. Unfiltered offers a comparative perspective on legal, political, and social conflicts over tobacco control. The book makes a unique contribution to our understanding of how scientific evidence, global health advocacy, individual risk assessments, and governmental interests intersect in the crafting of tobacco policy. It features national case studies and cross-cultural essays by experts in health policy, law, political science, history, and sociology. The lessons in Unfiltered are crucial to all who seek to understand and influence tobacco policy and reduce tobacco-related mortality worldwide.
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction: Liberal States, Public Health, and the Tobacco Question -- 1. Children and Bystanders First: The Ethics and Politics of Tobacco Control in the United States -- 2. The Limits of Tolerance: Cigarettes, Politics, and Society in Japan -- 3. Rights and Public Health in the Balance: Tobacco Control in Canada -- 4. The Politics of Tobacco Control in Australia: International Template? -- 5. Militants,Manufacturers, and Governments: Postwar Smoking Policy in the United Kingdom -- 6. Liberté, Egalité, Fumée: Smoking and Tobacco Control in France -- 7. Between Paternalism and Voluntarism: Tobacco Consumption and Tobacco Control in Germany -- 8. Holy Smoke, No More? Tobacco Control in Denmark -- 9. Tobacco-Control Policy in the European Union -- 10. Difference and Diffusion: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Rise of Anti-Tobacco Policies -- 11. Tobacco Control in Comparative Perspective: Eight Nations in Search of an Explanation -- Conclusion: Lessons from the Comparative Study of Tobacco Control -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index

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Tobacco, among the most popular consumer products of the twentieth century, is under attack. Once a behavior that knew no social bounds, cigarette smoking has been transformed into an activity that reflects sharp differences in social status. Unfiltered tells the story of how anti-smoking advocates, public health professionals, bureaucrats, and tobacco corporations have clashed over smoking regulation. The nations discussed in this book--Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States--restrict tobacco advertising, tax tobacco products, and limit where smoking is permitted. Each is also struggling to shape a tobacco policy that ensures corporate accountability, protects individual liberty, and asserts the state's public health power. Unfiltered offers a comparative perspective on legal, political, and social conflicts over tobacco control. The book makes a unique contribution to our understanding of how scientific evidence, global health advocacy, individual risk assessments, and governmental interests intersect in the crafting of tobacco policy. It features national case studies and cross-cultural essays by experts in health policy, law, political science, history, and sociology. The lessons in Unfiltered are crucial to all who seek to understand and influence tobacco policy and reduce tobacco-related mortality worldwide.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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