Unfiltered : conflicts over tobacco policy and public health / edited by Eric A. Feldman and Ronald Bayer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Feldman, Eric, Author.

Contributor:

Bayer, Ronald, editor.

Feldman, Eric A., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tobacco industry--Government policy.

Tobacco industry.

Advertising--Tobacco--Government policy.

Advertising.

Tobacco use--Health aspects--Government policy.

Tobacco use.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (405 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2004]

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.

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-674-03678-6

OCLC:

1286431495