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Presents the results of numerous studies that reveal the extent of the health consequences of smoking, providing detailed accounts of the link between smoking and lung, heart, and vascular disease; cancer; wrinkling and skin conditions; surgical risks; orthopedic problems; rheumatologic conditions; and pediatric illness.
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Smoke: A Global History of Smoking examines the culture of smoking in different traditions and locations around the world. From opium dens in Victorian England to tobacco in Edo period Japan, and from ganja and cocaine to Havana cigars, Smoke encompasses the subject as no book has before. Based in cultural history, it employs a large number of images as part of its evidence: around 300 illustrations document smoking and smokers of many substances...
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From the Back Cover: The Compact Research series offers a concise, relevant and conveniently organized collection of information covering a variety of current topics ranging from illegal immigration to marijuana. Each book introduces a timely topic in a tightly organized format to hold readers' interest. Lively objective overviews, primary source quotes, and illustrated facts and statistics present an inviting full color and user-friendly format.
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A tangible aspect of living, working, and travelling in the 21st century is the experience of moving between smoke-filled and smoke-free environments. In "Globalizing Tobacco Control", Roddey Reid examines what lies behind this experience: the revolution in public attitudes and health codes that regulate daily routines and the life of the body. While the gradual replacement of smoking with non-smoking as the social norm is a global phenomenon, it...
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A collection of articles on the pros and cons of tobacco use and the tobacco industry practice in the United States.
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"We live in an age when the cigarette industry is under almost constant attack. It's somewhat surprising, then, that very little attention has been given to the fact that America has traveled down this road before." "As Cassandra Tate reports in this fascinating work of historical scholarship, between 1890 and 1930, fifteen states enacted laws to ban the sale, manufacture, possession, and/or use of cigarettes - and no fewer than twenty-two other states...
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"Tobacco Control is the first book to compare the politics of tobacco in the United States and Canada. It describes the course of tobacco control policy, both regulation and taxation, in each country, and on several different levels of government. In doing so it provides a broad overview, showing how policies are similar or different, how they have changed over time, and how the two countries have learned from each other. In recent years the two countries...
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