•       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.