Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bayer, Ronald.
• Feldman, Eric A.

Description

viii, 394 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Tobacco Industry
• Tobacco use > Health aspects > Government policy
• Tobacco industry > Government policy
• Public Policy
• Advertising as Topic
• Advertising > Tobacco > Government policy
• Tobacco > Taxation
• Public Health

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 / Ronald Bayer and James Colgrove -- 2. The limits of tolerance : cigarettes, politics, and society in Japan / Eric A. Feldman -- 3. Rights and public health in the balance : tobacco control in Canada / Christopher P. Manfredi and Antonia Maioni -- 4. The politics of tobacco control in Australia : international template? / John Ballard -- 5. Militants, manufactures, and governments : postwar smoking policy in the United Kingdom / Virginia Berridge -- 6. Liberte, egalite, fumee : smoking and tobacco control in France / Constance A. Nathanson -- 7. Between paternalism and voluntarism : tobacco consumption and tobacco control in Germany / Gunter Frankenberg -- 8. Holy smoke, no more? : tobacco control in Denmark / Erik Albaek -- 9. Tobacco-control policy in the European Union / Anna Gilmore and Martin McKee -- 10. Difference and diffusion : cross-cultural perspectives on the rise of anti-tobacco policies / Allan M. Brandt -- 11. Tobacco control in comparative perspective : eight nations in search of an explanation / Theodore R. Marmor and Evan S. Lieberman -- Conclusion : lessons from the comparative study of tobacco control.

ISBN

0674013344 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2004040621

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries