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Volume 31, Number 2, 2006
Jump to full article: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 2006-05-02
Intro: The salience of tobacco in American politics during the past two decades is hard to underestimate. That much, these two books and their companions in this special set of topical reviews, clearly establish. But exactly what are the questions to which these books provide answers? And, to the extent there are international and comparative dimensions to the discussion of tobacco, how are those considerations to be understood? . . .
Smoke Filled Rooms: A Postmortem on the Tobacco Deal; Tobacco Control: Comparative Politics in the United States and Canada
W. Kip Viscusi. Smoke Filled Rooms: A Postmortem on the Tobacco Deal. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. 263 pp. $27.50 cloth.
Up in Smoke: From Legislation to Litigation in Tobacco Politics; Regulating Tobacco
Martha A. Derthick. Up in Smoke: From Legislation to Litigation in Tobacco Politics. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Inc., 2002. 248 pp. $27.00 paper.
Robert Rabin and Stephen D. Sugarman, eds. Regulating Tobacco. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. 299 pp. $55.00 cloth; $22.00 paper.
Unfiltered: Conflicts over Tobacco Policy and Public Health; Smoke in Their Eyes: Lessons in Movement Leadership from the Tobacco Wars; The Fight Against Big Tobacco: The Movement, the State, and the Public's Health
Eric A. Feldman and Ronald Bayer, eds. Unfiltered: Conflicts over Tobacco Policy and Public Health. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. viii + 394 pp. $55.00 cloth.
Michael Pertschuk. Smoke in Their Eyes: Lessons in Movement Leadership from the Tobacco Wars. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2001. xii + 327 pp. $49.95 cloth; $22.95 paper.
Mark Wolfson. The Fight Against Big Tobacco: The Movement, the State, and the Public's Health. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter, 2001. xii + 273. $49.95 cloth; $24.95 paper.
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