Research Catalog

Title

Smoking : who has the right? / edited by Jeffrey A. Schaler & Magda E. Schaler.

Publication

Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1998.

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Additional Authors

• Schaler, Jeffrey A.
• Schaler, Magda E.

Description

357 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"What should our smoking policies be? This question offers a unique opportunity to explore conflicting political, economic, legal, and social perspectives on health, choice, and personal responsibility. While some view the tobacco industry as demonized by anti-smoking campaigns, others regard extensive regulation as the "only" option." "Psychologist Jeffrey A. Schaler and health policy analyst Magda E. Schaler present the best arguments on the smoking debate to assist readers on both sides of the issue in forming their own conclusions about the "right to smoke" versus the widely asserted public health goal of a tobacco-free society."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Contemporary issues

Uniform Title

Contemporary issues (Buffalo, N.Y.)

Subject

• Smoking > legislation & jurisprudence
• Smoking > United States
• Smoking > Law and legislation > United States
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: The smoking controversy: a right to protect versus a right to smoke? / Jeffrey A. Schaler and Magda E. Schaler -- The analysis of policy: understanding the process of policy development / David Ryder -- Tobacco: the road to litigation / Linda Goldman -- Historical overview of tobacco legislation and regulation / Peter D. Jacobson, Jeffrey Wasserman, and John R. Anderson -- A sociological view of the anti-smoking phenomenon / Peter L. Berger -- A new prohibition? An essay on drinking and smoking in America / Mark Edward Lender -- The anti-tobacco campaign of the Nazis: a little known aspect of public health in Germany, 1933-45 / Robert N. Proctor -- The legal and scientific basis for FDA's assertion of jurisdiction over cigarettes and smokeless tobacco / David A. Kessler [and others] -- The criminal case against the tobacco industry / Lowell Bergman and Oriana Zill -- Tobacco litigation as cancer prevention: dealing with the devil / George J. Annas -- Tobacco industry tactics / Edward L. Sweda Jr. and Richard A. Daynard -- Smoking, stigma, and the purification of public space / Blake D. Poland -- Judicial approaches to tobacco control: the third wave of tobacco litigation as a tobacco control mechanism / Graham E. Kelder Jr. and Richard A. Daynard -- The control of conduct: authority versus autonomy / Thomas Szasz -- The tyranny of experts: blowing the whistle on the cult of expertise / Morris E. Chafetz -- The social symbolism of smoking and health / Joseph R. Gusfield -- Smoking, human rights, and civil liberties / Douglas J. Den Uyl -- Tobacco and public policy: a constitutionalist perspective / Robert D. Tollison and Richard E. Wagner -- Cigarettes and property rights / Walter E. Williams -- Smokers' rights to health care / Rajendra Persaud -- Smoking right and responsibility / Jeffrey A. Schaler -- Passive smoking, scientific method, and corrupted science / Antony Flew.

ISBN

1573922544 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^^98030876^

OCLC

39727682

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library