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Record Nr.

UNINA9910973361603321

Titolo

Regulating tobacco / / edited by Robert L. Rabin and Stephen D. Sugarman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-028728-4

0-19-772033-1

9786610481149

1-280-48114-5

1-282-36714-5

9786612367144

0-19-803183-1

0-19-534902-4

0-19-530303-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (310 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

362.29/66/0973

Soggetti

Tobacco use - United States

Tobacco use - United States - Prevention

Smoking - Law and legislation - United States

Health and Wellbeing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 2001.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; About the Contributors; 1 Perspectives on Policy: Introduction; 2 The Politics of Tobacco Regulation in the United States; 3 Taxing Tobacco: The Impact of Tobacco Taxes on Cigarette Smoking and Other Tobacco Use; 4 Marketing Policies; 5 Reducing Harm to Smokers: Methods, Their Effectiveness, and the Role of Policy; 6 Reducing the Supply of Tobacco to Youths; 7 The Third Wave of Tobacco Tort Litigation; 8 Clean Indoor Air Restrictions: Progress and Promise; 9 International Aspects of Tobacco Control and the Proposed WHO Treaty; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R

ST; U; V; W; Y



Sommario/riassunto

The essays in this text analyse specific strategies used to influence tobacco use, including taxation, regulation of advertising and promotion, regulation of indoor smoking, & sets them against the latest scientific findings about tobacco use.