"The authors use social science approaches to the subject to illustrate the wide range of implications, social, political and legal, which are associated with the issue....They deserve our congratulations for producing very thorough and interesting studies of this important public policy area. Although the book is dense with facts and theories, it is engrossing and rewarding....Rabin and Sugarman have come up with a good volume of essays. It is a book which will interest scholars from a variety of academic fields and those with interests beyond smoking and health. They have made a fine contribution to public policy scholarship as well as to the discussion of this particular issue."--The Law and Politics Book Review
"Smoking Policy offers the most comprehensive examination of the smoking debate to date and should prove a valuable resource for anyone interested in this contentious issue." -- Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy
"Smoking Policy provides a rich and informed analysis of the legal, political, economic, and cultural aspects of tobacco use. It underscores the shifting and often ambivalent societal values regarding smoking. This work is must reading for the current debate over smoking control."--Richard Stewart, New York University Law School
"Smoking Policy is must reading for anyone who wants the benefit of serious scholarly reflections on the human toll, moral dilemma, and legal response to smoking."--Paul C. Weiler, Harvard Law School
"Not surprisingly, most writing on smoking-related policies focuses on their impact on smoking rates. Smoking Policy is different, in that it treats public health concerns as only one among several criteria for good policies, and smoking control policies as social artifacts to be examined historically and sociologically. This book is both important and unique."--Richard A. Daynard, Northeastern University School of Law
Product Description
This work examines the interplay between public attitudes and governmental action as norms have changed on where and whether one should smoke. With evidence accumulating on the serious health risks of smoking to both smokers and nonsmokers, an interdisciplinary team of experts in law, public health, communications, political science, and sociology addresses a wide range of tobacco control issues--the politics of regulatory enactment and enforcement, tobacco advertising, cigarette litigation, and strategies of insurers and employers.
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