Exploring Multiple Dimensions of Tobacco Use; Health, Social, and Economic Implications As Well As the Ethical, Legal and Scientific Debates
Research and Markets (http://www. researchandmarkets. com/reports/c42900) has announced the addition of Tobacco Control and Policy to their offering.
Dublin (PRWEB) October 3, 2006
Research and Markets (http://www. researchandmarkets. com/reports/c42900 (http://www. researchandmarkets. com/reports/c42900)) has announced the addition of Tobacco Control and Policy to their offering.
Required reading for anyone wishing to be conversant with tobacco control policy, the book is edited by Kenneth E. Warner—dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan and a leading tobacco policy researcher—who leads with an overview of the field. Warner’s overview is supported by reprints of some of the field’s most significant articles, written by leading scholars and practitioners. The topics discussed are:
Taxation and Price Clean Indoor Air Laws Advertising, Ad Bans, and Counter advertising Possession, Use, and Purchase (PUP) Laws and Sales to Minors Cessation Policy Comprehensive State Laws
This book, edited by the leading researcher in tobacco control and policy, will explore multiple dimensions of tobacco use; health, social, and economic implications as well as the ethical, legal and scientific debates that have accompanied the development of tobacco control policies in the U. S. In addition to giving readers a thorough grounding in the area of tobacco and health, the book provides a comprehensive examination of the historical and contemporary use of tobacco products and of their health and social implications.
The objective of the book is to learn how lessons from history, epidemiology, health behavior, and policy analysis can be combined to understand the nature of, and potential policy responses to, the ongoing epidemic of tobacco-related disease.
Coverage includes history; production of tobacco products; marketing; elucidation of disease links; societal responses; impacts of anti-tobacco policies; industry responses; economics and politics of tobacco; cessation methods; lawsuits against the industry; contemporary policy developments in the U. S.; the global use of tobacco; the future of tobacco use and tobacco control.
Reviewer comments:
(1) This book would be of great interest to faculty and students in most public health and health administration programs and to selected public health practitioners and health care administrators. I would be likely to purchase Tobacco Policy and Control.
(2) This book will be a valuable resource for many in the health sector, from researchers to teachers to students to practitioners of many types.
(3) I would find a reader on tobacco policy and research very useful for my tobacco policy course, since many students do not have a clear overview of the issues and environment of tobacco control.
About the authors
Kenneth E. Warner, Ph. D. (volume editor) is dean and Avedis Donabedian Distinguished
University Professor of Public Health, at the School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Warner is also director, University of Michigan Tobacco Research Network.
Stephen L. Isaacs, J. D. (general series editor) is a partner in Isaacs/Jellinek, a San Francisco-based consulting firm, and president of Health Policy Associates, Inc.
James R. Knickman, Ph. D. (general series editor) served as vice president for research and evaluation at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation during the time that this book was developed and edited. He is currently the president and chief executive officer of the New York State Health Foundation.
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