Tobacco Control Policy
ISBN: 978-0-787-98745-9
September 2006
Jossey-Bass
608 pages
ISBN: 978-0-787-98745-9
September 2006
Jossey-Bass
608 pages
Although tobacco-policy research dates back to the 1970s, the emergence of a field of tobacco-policy research, nurtured by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, evolved primarily over the past fifteen years. This volume, the third in the acclaimed Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Series on Health Policy, presents some of the most influential research that has defined the field and has contributed to policy change.
Required reading for anyone wishing to be conversant with tobacco control policy, the book is edited by Kenneth E. Warner—dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan and a leading tobacco policy researcher—who leads with an overview of the field. Warner's overview is supported by reprints of some of the field's most significant articles, written by leading scholars and practitioners.
The topics discussed are:
The book concludes with analyses of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's work to reduce smoking.
• Hot Topic: Even though smoking rates have declined in the U.S., it remains a major health issue among poor and vulnerable populations, and the leading cause of heart and lung illness among those populations.
• Unique Collection: Most writing on tobacco from a public health perspective focusses on legal actions against tobacco companies, but this book is the scholarly compilation on lessons to be learned frm tobacco's health effects on populations and the formulation of policy around tobacco.
• Star Contributors: Includes chapters by leading researchers including Kenneth Warner, Stanton Glantz, Elizabeth Gilpin, and Martha White.
• Legacy: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has invested decades and hundreds of millions of dollars in researching tobacco policy and ways to reduce tobacco use, leading to innovations such as smoke-free sections in restaurants that in two decades have helped to reduce smoking in the U.S. and put it our country in the international vanguard of smoking cessation.