Tobacco : a reference handbook / Harold V. Cordry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cordry, Harold V., 1943-

Series:

Contemporary world issues

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tobacco use--Information resources.

Tobacco use.

Antismoking movement--Information resources.

Antismoking movement.

Trials (Products liability)--United States--Information resources.

Trials (Products liability).

Products liability--Tobacco--United States--Information resources.

Products liability.

Tobacco industry--Law and legislation--United States--Information resources.

Tobacco industry.

Tobacco Industry--history.

Smoking--adverse effects.

Tobacco industry--Law and legislation.

Information resources.

Products liability--Tobacco.

United States.

Tobacco--adverse effects.

Medical Subjects:

Tobacco Industry--history.

Smoking--adverse effects.

Tobacco--adverse effects.

Physical Description:

xii, 419 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, [2001]

Summary:

Problems and crises. Analyses and answers. Contemporary World Issues explores -- topic by topic -- the critical challenges facing America and the world in the 21"st" century.

24-hour cable news. Millions of Internet sites. Information overload. How can we sort through the information? Assess the analyses? Trust the sources? Contemporary World Issues provides a simple solution -- informed and readable authors offering concise yet thorough discussions of today's most talked-about topics as they affect America and the world.

Exploring such diverse subjects as tobacco and terrorism, rainforests and religion, affirmative action and urban sprawl, Contemporary World Issues provides the historical background, the contemporary context, and the resources for further research. Exhaustive, concise, accessible, accurate, and up-to-date.

Drawing from a variety of solid sources, including medical reports and studies and documents from global organizations and federal agencies, the author identifies the various parts of the "tobacco debate." In order to ensure completeness and objectivity, the opposing points of view are presented as accurately as possible.

Contents:

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

"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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

157607224X

0874369673

OCLC:

47756171