Research Catalog

Title

Smoke in their eyes : lessons in movement leadership from the tobacco wars / Michael Pertschuk.

Author

Pertschuk, Michael, 1933-2022

Publication

Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2001.

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Description

xii, 327 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

The classic American struggle between the public interest and corporate interests is perhaps nowhere better illustrated than in the decades-long struggle between the tobacco industry and advocates for public health. The failure of the "global settlement" legislation is now viewed by many public health experts as an historic missed opportunity, and in this extraordinary book, Smoke in Their Eyes, Michael Pertschuk brilliantly describes the forces brought to bear.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books.

Subject

• Smoking Prevention
• Public Policy
• Leadership
• Consumer Advocacy
• Tobacco Industry > legislation & jurisprudence
• Lobbying
• Antismoking movement > United States
• Tobacco industry > Government policy > United States
• United States

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• TABLE OF CONTENTS -- pt. 1 leading toward settlement -- Thinking the unthinkable -- Why Matt Myers -- Sinking the inthinkable -- The search for common ground begins -- Why Stan Glantz and Julia Carol -- Everyone agreed -- The real leadership -- A suspect consensus -- Guess who's coming to dinner -- Day one : four meetings, two directions -- One stays, one stays out -- pt. 2 The settlement -- Progress -- Betrayed -- Slings and arrows -- With friends like these ... -- The line hardens -- A divorce in the family -- The nicotine fix -- I say it's immunity and i say the hell with it -- When to walk away -- The two Ks to the rescue -- The deal is struck, and stricken.
• TABLE OF CONTENTS CONT'D -- pt. 3 The rise and fall of the McCain bill -- The struggle for Clinton's nod -- Unity under Clinton's umbrella -- Things fall apart, the center cannot hold -- The moving Kessler-Koop line -- The all-inclusive anti-immunity club -- McCain to the rescue -- A cliffhanger on liability -- Not good enough -- Worse than nothing -- Guess who's not coming to dinner -- The window of opportunity slams shut -- pt. 4 Lessons from the settlement and its aftermath -- What was gained? What was lost -- And the rest of the globe -- Thirteen ways to lead a movement backward -- The wrong leaders for the right moment -- Engaged in the work of democracy -- Conclusion : With a little bit of luck -- Afterword : Lessons of the tobacco wars.

ISBN

• 0826513905 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 082651393X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2001003506

OCLC

• 47137290
• SCSB-9930119

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library