Research Catalog

Title

Tobacco : a reference handbook / Harold V. Cordry.

Author

Cordry, Harold V., 1943-

Publication

Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2001.

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Details

Description

xii, 419 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Contains primary source material.

Series Statement

Contemporary world issues

Uniform Title

Contemporary world issues

Subject

• Tobacco Industry > history
• Tobacco > adverse effects
• Smoking > adverse effects
• Tobacco use > Information resources
• Antismoking movement > Information resources
• Trials (Products liability) > United States > Information resources
• Products liability > Information resources. > United States
• Tobacco industry > Information resources. > United States
• Tobacco Industry > history

Genre/Form

Resource Guide

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Overview: Rise of tobacco in America -- Filter cigarettes and the tar derby -- Surgeon general's report of 1964 -- Other surgeon general and PHS reports relating to tobacco -- Tobacco industry besieged -- Health risks -- Nicotine and pharmacology -- Prevalence of and trends in tobacco use -- Underage tobacco use -- Prevention -- Quitting -- Tobacco use worldwide -- Future of tobacco -- Issues and topics for research -- References -- Chronology -- Biographical sketches -- Documents: "State-specific prevalence of current cigarette and cigar smoking among adults" -- United States, December 18, 1998" -- "Cigarette smoking among American teens continues gradual decline": news release and data -- "Health effects of smoking among young people" -- "Magazines with high youth readership in which Phillip Morris advertises" -- "When quitting seems hard" -- "Don't let another year go up in smoke: quit tips" -- "'Cigarettes should be regulated like other drugs' says Director General" --^
• "Targeting tobacco use: nation's leading cause of death" -- Statement by President Clinton (March 21, 2000) in response to the Supreme Court ruling that the FDA does not have the authority to regulate tobacco -- Alcohol, tobacco and other drug prevention -- Directions in development-curbing the epidemic: governments and the economics of tobacco control -- Excerpt from "European Code against Cancer" --"African Americans and tobacco" -- "Facts you should know" -- "Environmental tobacco smoke seriously endangers children's health" -- Secondhand smoke: "How big a lung cancer risk for adults?" -- Secondhand smoke: "The risks to children are widely acknowledged" -- "Tobacco free initiative" -- "Tobacco epidemic: health dimensions" -- "Tobacco epidemic: much more than a health issue" -- "Tobacco epidemic in Latin America" -- "Tobacco industry's youth anti-tobacco programs" -- "Tobacco use by children: pediatric disease" -- Tobacco and kids" -- "Nicotine addiction in adolescents" --^
• Table of consumption data -- "Smokeless tobacco: dangerous alternative" -- "Young women and smoking" -- Warning label laws and their labels -- "Framework convention on tobacco control" -- Directory of organizations and agencies -- Selected print resources: Bibliographies and databases -- Periodicals -- Books, reports and pamphlets -- Publications available from organizations and agencies -- Selected tobacco industry documents -- Selected nonprint resources: Videos -- Internet resources -- Abbreviations and acronyms.

ISBN

• 157607224X (alk. paper)
• 0874369673 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2001004555

OCLC

• 47756171
• SCSB-12450355

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library