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| A Right to Smoke (1997) Viewpoints Emma Haughton United States Editor: Franklin Watts ISBN: 0531144127 | Buy this book |  |
| Ashes to Ashes (1996) Richard Kluger United States Editor: Vintage Books, NY ISBN: 0375700366 | Buy this book | | America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize) |
| Best Practices in Tobacco Control Regulation of Tobacco Products Canada Report United States Website: click here
| | The Tobacco Free Initiative announces the release of a best practices report highlighting Canadian tobacco product regulation. The Canadian tobacco regulatory regime, identified as one of the best by TFI and the WHO Study Group on Tobacco Product Regulation (TobReg), incorporates mandatory periodic emissions testing, emissions disclosure based on all characteristics of the tobacco product, and labelling requirements which mandate large, clear health warnings and informational messages. And most noteworthy, this best practice shows how Canada, in an effort to promote public health goals, creatively maneuvered around the limitations of the ISO smoking machine testing protocol by amending their regulation to require manufacturers to additionally test using a more intense testing regimen. Henceforth, this Canadian intense testing regimen, has since been adopted by the TobReg in its first recommendation: Guiding principles for the development of tobacco product research and testing capacity and proposed protocols for the initiation of tobacco product testing. TFI hopes that Member States will glean valuable insights and inspiration from Canada’s experience. |
| Building Blocks for Tobacco Control (2004) Handbook United States Editor: Tobacco Free Initiative, World Health Organisation | Buy this book | | The Handbook contains three main sections. The Introduction presents the evolving defintion of "national capacity", identifies the types of capacities needed for effective tobacco control and outlines the key features on building capacity. Section one provides a descriptive overview of the tobacco epidemic, and is further sub-divided into four chapters (Part I. Setting the Theoretical Foundation for Tobacco Control). Section 2 focuses on the fundamental capacities necessary to empoer countries to take on the tobacco epidemic successfully (Part II. Putting Theory into Practice). |
| Building blocks for tobacco control A handbook United States Website: click here
| | The tobacco epidemic is a global challenge demanding concerted global and national action. The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) contains the blueprint for coordinated global action to address one of the most significant risks to health. However, national action is critical in order to attain the vision embodied in the WHO FCTC. Building national capacity to carry out effective and sustainable national tobacco control programmes is an urgent priority, and one of the most important measures required to combat the tobacco epidemic.
The idea of developing this Handbook arose from the awareness that while various official WHO documents called upon countries to develop national capacity for tobacco control, there was no comprehensive publication to guide them through the process of developing such capacity. Conceived as a “How to” manual, the approach is intentionally pragmatic, addressing ‘real world’ issues and providing practical advice for setting up viable national tobacco control programmes. |
| Business, Politics and Cigarettes (1995) Multiple Levels, Multiple Agendas Richard McGowan United States Editor: Quorum Books ISBN: 089930964X | Buy this book | |
| Cashing on Children Smoking: A Series of Recommendations United Kingdom Editor: UK Health Education Authority | |
| Children and Tobacco in South Africa (2001) T. Guthrie, M. Shung-King, K. Steyn, V. Mathambo South Africa | | A literature review of health effects, youth smoking and tobacco control measures |
| Cigarettes, Cigarettes (1996) The Dirty Rotten Truth About Tobacco Patrick Reynolds, Rebecca Grace Jones, Peter Traynor and Susan Ryan United States Editor: Sight Productions ISBN: 188636608X | Buy this book | |
| Clopin-Clopant (2005) Comment éteindre le désir d'allumer une cigarette ? GISME France Editor: PUG ISBN: 2706113189 Website: click here
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| Comment vous libérer du tabac (1999) Bruno Comby France Editor: Dangles ISBN: 2703302932 | Buy this book | |
| Curare Il Fumo (2003) Manuale per Conduttori dei Programmi Antifumo Giacomo Mangiaracina Italy Editor: EdUP | Buy this book | | Questo manuale rappresenta la fase pi371 matura di un progetto formativo sul tabagismo e i problemi fumo-correlati, che l'autore ha sviluppato nell'arco di molti anni. Il testo vuole essere un contributo significativo alla creazione di nuove competenze, strumenti e professionalit340 che fino a qualche anno fa erano enesistenti. L'intervento terapeutico razionale non 350 fondato sul metodo, quanto sulla preparazione dell'operatore. |
| Decades of Deceit (1999) Document Discovery in the Minnesota Tobacco Litigation Ciresi M., Walburn R., Sutton T. United States Editor: William Mitchell Law Review (Vol. 25 No. 02) | |
| Denial and Delay David Pollock United Kingdom Website: click here
| | Forty years before ‘mad cow disease' a similar crisis was affecting Whitehall and Westminster. The tobacco industry - fundamental to the economy (it provided 14% of tax revenue) and hitherto of unimpeachable respectability - was suspected of killing its customers. But it took half a generation to move from scientific proof to effective government action as a cohort of purblind politicians and officials made place for their less blinkered successors.
Expert statements from advisory groups and the Medical Research Council were watered down and ignored. Iain Macleod chain-smoked while he made the first Ministry of Health announcement on the subject. The Treasury lost no opportunity to protect the source of so much revenue.
Meantime the industry bought favour - and confusion - with a gift of £250,000 to fund research and lobbied assiduously with their disingenuous reinterpretation of the statistics. The way top tobacco company managers casually visited Permanent Secretaries to press their points bears careful reading by anyone concerned today about government departments that fail to keep a critical distance from powerful industries pressing their commercial interests.
"This book records," says Sir George Godber in his Foreword, "how proven facts can be obscured by commercial interests." The first Chief Medical Officer to take the problem seriously, he says that as a result "the message reaching much of the public remains unclear."
" . . . as absorbing to read as a good detective novel. It is, however, much more. Its publication should help avoid any similar delay in the future when medical research has revealed how tens - or, as we now know, hundreds - of thousands of premature deaths can be avoided in this country alone every year" - from the Foreword by Sir Richard Doll.
David Pollock was Director of Action on Smoking and Health from 1991 to 1994 and remains a member of the ASH Advisory Council. |
| Derecho del Producto Industrial (1997) Calidad, seguridad y responsabilidad del fabricante Hidalgo Moya, J.R., Olaya Adan, M. Spain Editor: Bosch, Casa Editorial S.A. ISBN: 847676418 | |
| Empty Cribs The impact of smoking on child health Michael Dean, Ph.D. United States Editor: Arts and Sciences Publishing ISBN: 9780978690700 Website: click here
| Buy this book | | You know smoking is bad for your health and pregnant women should not smoke. But
you probably don’t know smoking is the most common preventable cause of infant
death. This book must be read by every parent or future parent.
Empty Cribs-The Impact of Smoking on Child Health describes the role of smoking
on sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), low birth rate, and childhood lung
disease. The book also presents information on other ways to prevent infant
mortality. Empty Cribs provides a series of solutions for prospective parents
and concerned readers including boycotting companies profiting from tobacco,
reducing investments in tobacco-involved companies, and strategies to increase
consumer awareness. An extensive appendix is included with resources on health,
supporting organizations, and how to quit smoking. The book’s message will
resonate with parents, prospective parents, anti-tobacco
advocates, and people of faith. Empty Cribs will be the first book to document
the role of smoking on infant mortality and provide solutions to address the
issue. The future of our children is in our hands. |
| Ending the Tobacco Holocaust (2007) Dr Michael Rabinoff United States Editor: Elite Books Website: click here
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| Final report of the Women, Tobacco, and Cancer Working Group (2004) An Agenda for the 21st Century United States Website: click here
| | Presented by the Co-chairs to the Advisory Committee to the Director (ACD) of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in a teleconference July 27, 2004 |
| Fumatul de la Obicei la Boala 101 Intrebari despre fumat Antigona Trofor / Cornel Radu-Loghin Romania Editor: Tehnopress Printing House Iasi Romania ISBN: 9737020510 | |
| Globalizing Tobacco Control (2005) Roddey Reid, University of California, San Diego, USA United States Editor: Indiana University Press ISBN: 0253218098 | Buy this book | | This is a unique comparative study of anti-smoking campaigns and movements in 3 G-8 countries from 1975 to 2000 to counter the expanding tobacco epidemic. Based on research in tobacco control archives and on over 75 interviews with state health officials, activists, epidemiologists, and social marketers, it follows the gradual replacement of smoking with non-smoking as the new social norm in California, France, and Japan. Its point of departure is the decision made in 1999 by the WHO’s Tobacco Free Initiative to promote the California tobacco control program as a global model for other regions and countries. In three different sites this book analyzes the interpenetration of local and global health promotion strategies, the dynamics of collaboration between different participants and groups, the challenges of community input and empowerment, and the struggle to translate NGO initiatives into effective state policy and tobacco control campaigns. Applying methods of analysis from the fields of communication, sociology, and social studies of science the study reprises public health debates of the early 1990s on health promotion, social marketing, and community development but replaces them in the context of histories of tobacco and public health, globalization, and evolving forms of liberal government.
310 pp, 20 illustrations + Tobacco Control Timeline |
| Grossesse et Tabac Michel Delcroix France Editor: PUF ISBN: 2130543278 | Buy this book | |
| Infiltration (2005) Une taupe à la solde de Philip Morris Sophie Malka, Marco Gregori Switzerland Editor: Georg Editeur ISBN: 282570914X | Buy this book | |
| Kick the Habit (2000) How to Stop Smoking and Stay Stopped Martin Raw United Kingdom Editor: BBC Worldwide ISBN: 0563551852 | Buy this book | |
| Kicking Butts (2006) Quit smoking and take charge of your health United States Editor: ACS ISBN: 0944235425 | Buy this book | |
| Know Smoking (1997) The Whole Truth About Smoking and Quitting Dr. Simon Bryant, M.D. United States Editor: MiddleWay Publishing Inc. ISBN: 0968145604 | Buy this book | |
| La Dépendance au Tabac (2003) Suzy Soumaille, Jean-François Etter Switzerland ISBN: 2880491983 | Buy this book | | Dans une remarquable synthèse de la littérature scientifique, Suzy Soumaille, journaliste médicale, présente de façon claire, simple et très accessible au non-spécialiste l'état actuel des connaissances sur la dépendance au tabac. Ce livre permet de comprendre que, plus qu'une mauvaise habitude dont on se débarrasse avec un peu de volonté, la dépendance au tabac est une affection à prendre au sérieux. Les dessins de Simon donnent une touche d'humour bienvenue, et les nombreux témoignages de fumeurs et d'ex-fumeurs permettent de comprendre combien il est difficile d'arrêter de fumer, mais aussi comment des ex-fumeurs y sont tout de même parvenus.
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| La Fume (2003) Robert Molimard France Editor: Sides ISBN: 2868611214 | Buy this book | |
| Le Piège Fatal (2006) Thriller thérapeutique Jean-Pierre Cicchelero France Editor: Jouvence ISBN: 2883534853 | Buy this book | |
| Le rideau de fumée (2003) Les méthodes secrètes de l'industrie du tabac G: Dubois France Editor: Seuil ISBN: 2020537249 | Buy this book | |
| Le Tabagisme (2001) De la prévention au traitement Yves Martinet, A. Bohadana France Editor: Masson ISBN: 2294003810 | Buy this book | |
| Making Policy/Making Change (1999) How Communities Are Taking Law into Their Own Hands Makani N. Themba United States Editor: Chardon Press ISBN: 18907590704 | | Throughout the country, activists are making change and getting it in writing. Community groups have successfully developed and promoted more than 1,000 local policies - limiting alcohol and tobacco billboards and liquor stores in low-income communities, winning higher wages and more rights for workers under public contract, holding corporations accountable for environmental damage, and bringing youth into the policy-setting process.
Using case studies and practical how-to-instruction, and drawing on her own extensive experience, Themba shows how a community group can construct a policy initiative, work with the community and the media to get it passed, counter negative gender and race stereotyping and, in the end, take law into their own hands - by making it. |
| Memoirs in a Country Churchyard (1996) A Tobaccoman's Plea: Clean Up Tobacco Row! Floyd H. Nuttall United States Editor: Brunswick Publishing Corporation ISBN: 1556181590 | Buy this book | |
| Monograph 15 Those Who Continue To Smoke
National Cancer Institute United States Website: click here
| | Is Achieving Abstinence Harder and Do We Need to Change Our Interventions? |
| Nicotine (1999) Analitical Determination of Nicotine and Related Compounds and their Metabolites John W. Gorrod, Peyton Jacob III Netherlands Editor: Elsevier Science ISBN: 0444500952 | Buy this book | |
| Nikotinabhängigkeit (1999) Nicotine Dependance. Diagnosis and Therapy. Rudolf Schobergberger, Michael Kunze Germany Editor: Springer Wien New York ISBN: 321183169X | Buy this book | |
| Policy recommendations for smoking cessation and treatment of tobacco dependence United States Website: click here
| Buy this book | | Along with an individual approach (behavioural and/or pharmacological interventions) to smoking cessation and treatment of tobacco dependence, a supportive environment is needed to encourage tobacco consumers in their attempts to quit. Treatment of tobacco dependence should be part of a comprehensive tobacco-control policy along with measures such as taxation and price policies, advertising restrictions, dissemination of information and establishment of smoke-free public places.
The recommendations contained in this book propose a broad framework for addressing smoking cessation and treatment of tobacco dependence. In this framework, Governments can progressively choose minimal, expanded and core recommendations as they strengthen their resources and capacities. |
| Public Health Advocacy and Tobacco Control Making Smoking History Simon Chapman United States | | Public Health Advocacy and Tobacco Control is divided into two sections. The first contains chapters spanning such key topics as the place of advocacy in tobacco control, ethical issues, smoking cessation and prevention, harm reduction and product regulation and the denormalisation of smoking. The second section provides an invaluable A-Z of tobacco control advocacy strategy from Accuracy to Whistleblowers. |
| Recommendation: on Health Claims Derived from ISO/FTC Method to Measure Cigarette Yield Website: click here
| | This publication gives recommendations and conclusion based on the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
They are as follows:
a. Tar, nicotine, and CO numerical ratings based upon current ISO/FTC methods and presented on cigarette packages and in advertising as single numerical values are misleading and should not be displayed.
b. All misleading health and exposure claims should be banned.
c. The ban should apply to packaging, brand names, advertising and other promotional activities.
d. Banned terms should include light, ultra-light, mild and low tar, and may be extended to other misleading terms The ban should include not only misleading terms and claims but also, names, trademarks, imagery and other means to conveying the impression that the product provides a health benefit. |
| Recommendation: on Nicotine and the Regulation in Tobacco and non-Tobacco Products Website: click here
| | Based on over two decades of research findings have pointed to nicotine as the key pharmacological factor underlying tobacco use. This report makes recommendations based on existing science about the regulation of tobacco and non-tobacco products.
They are as follows:
a. The present situation in which the most toxic form of nicotine delivery is the least regulated, is unacceptable from a public health perspective.
b. Because nicotine appears to be responsible for a small proportion of tobacco-caused diseases relative to other tobacco constituents and emissions, there is considerable scope for developments that reduce the risks experienced by users of tobacco, but without undermining efforts to prevent initiation to tobacco use and promote cessation among established users.
c. In the absence of firm contrary data, those responsible for public policy decisions are justified in using the conservative assumptions that smokers' preferences for a nicotine dose are persistent over time and are not influenced by changes in the product used and that smokers will compensate for reductions in yield to maintain a relatively consistent dose of nicotine.
d. A broad and comprehensive regulatory framework is required to enable policy options for controlling nicotine to move forward in ways that minimize the risks. |
| Recommendation: on Smokeless Tobacco Products Website: click here
| | This Recommendation centers on the lack of study of the health risks that smokeless tobacco poses on humans and the great deal of caution that is needed if it is in the market for human consumption. The use of smokeless tobacco is a significant part of the overall world tobacco problem with a high prevalence of use in many countries. There is conclusive evidence that certain smokeless tobacco products increase risk of oral cancer, specifically betel quid with tobacco, tobacco with lime, and other tobacco mixtures in South Asia, and smokeless tobacco in the United States.
The designation of smokeless tobacco products as harm reducing agents may promote a false perception of safety. This publication alludes to how in most countries there is no specific mechanism for regulating smokeless tobacco products. Often smokeless tobacco products are not required to carry any health warnings. There is a potential for regulating smokeless tobacco products (along with conventional smoking tobacco products)outlined in this recommendation. |
| Recommendation: on Tobacco Product Ingredients and Emissions Website: click here
| | The purpose of this publication is to provide recommendations to support the development of protocols for assessing tobacco product ingredients and associated emissions with the intent to reduce tobacco caused disease. The central premise is that tobacco product ingredients and emissions thereof, including nicotine, should be regulated. The preferred focus for regulation is the emission from the product when it is used as intended [exceptions may include certain cigarette ingredients such as nicotine and ammonia]. These principles apply to all smoked products including novel cigarette substitutes and smokeless tobacco products, recognizing that all tobacco products have ingredients and emissions. |
| Regulating Tobacco (2001) Robert Rabin, Stephen Sugarman United States Editor: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0195147561 | Buy this book | |
| Report on Tobacco Control in India (2005) India Editor: K. Srinath Reddy and Prakash C. Gupta Website: click here
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| Science in the Service of Political Purpose (1996) The Construction of the Belief That Environmental Tobacco Smoke is Harmful to One's Health Bernhardt Lieberman and Stephen Finegold United Kingdom Editor: Aiglon Press | |
| Sevrage tabagique (2005) Béatrice Le Maitre, Sylvianne Ratte, Anne Stoebner-Delabre France Editor: Doin éditeurs ISBN: 2704011877 | Buy this book | |
| Smoke in their Eyes (2001) Lessons in movement leadership from the Tobacco Wars Mike Pertschuk United States ISBN: 082651393X | Buy this book | |
| Smokescreens and State Responsibility (2004) Using Human Rights Strategies to Promote Global Tobacco Control Melissa Crow United States Editor: The Yale Journal of International Law, Inc. | | In May 2003, the Member States of the World Health Assembly adopted a Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) that recommends a variety of national initiatives targeted to help States Parties reduce the demand for and supply of tobacco products within their territories. By failing to undertake such initiatives, governments give tobacco companies license to expand their base of consumers, who incur the risks of nicotine addiction, illness, and untimely death and subject those around them to the life-threatening risks of exposure to secondhand smoke. In cases where these risks become realities, governments violate their citizens’ internationally recognized rights to life, health, and freedom of information. This Article elaborates on the rights implications of tobacco control and argues that existing international human rights institutions could be used to hold governments accountable for tobacco-related human rights violations and to promote tobacco control at the national level.
After discussing the genesis of the FCTC and highlighting the weaknesses of its existing implementation mechanisms, the Article proposes that international human rights institutions offer a supplemental strategy for promoting the FCTC’s objectives. The Article explores opportunities to advance the tobacco control agenda through recourse to the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the United Nations Human Rights Committee, the European Court of Human Rights, and the Inter-American Commission and Court of Human Rights. Notwithstanding these opportunities, the Article acknowledges that the effectiveness of these institutions ultimately depends on the willingness of national legislatures and courts to implement and enforce their decisions. The Article provides examples of encouraging decisions from courts in India, Bangladesh, and Uganda that have construed domestic human rights norms to require governments to undertake far-reaching tobacco control measures. The Article concludes that the promulgation of the FCTC, the increased use of international human rights institutions, and strategic human rights litigation in national courts will create substantial momentum for governments to promote tobacco control.
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| Smoking (Current Controversies) (1997) Carol Wekesser United States Editor: Greenhaven Press ISBN: 1565105346 | Buy this book | |
| Smoking and Reproductive Life (2004) The impact of smoking on sexual, reproductive and child health British Medical Association Board of Science and Education & Tobacco Control Resource Centre United Kingdom ISBN: 0727918567 Website: click here
| | This report represents the first focused overview of the impact of smoking on sexual, reproductive and child health in the UK. |
| Statement of Principles Guiding the Evaluation of New or Modified Tobacco Products Editor: SACTob Website: click here
| | This publication sheds light on the existing scientific understanding of risks caused by tobacco use. It gives a framework of questions to be considered in evaluating the harm reduction potential of new tobacco products. The main points are: existing scientific evidence is not sufficient to assess the differences in health risk potential between newly engineered tobacco products and existing products, regulatory oversight of cigarette and cigarette-like products should include examination of separate aspects of the new products, claims of reduced exposure or reduced harm should be supported by adequate scientific data provided by the manufacturer who intends to make the claim, each type of claim requires a substantive body of evidence, regulatory oversight is necessary to assess and monitor changes in newly modified tobacco products, and claims of reductions in smoke emissions or reduced uptake of toxicants need to be supported by evidence. |
| Tabac : j'arrête (2005) Catherine Maillard France Editor: Editions Jouvence ISBN: 2883531277 Website: click here
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| Tabagismul (2002) Consecinte si tratament Conf. Dr. Florin Dumitru Mihaltan - Dr. Magdalena Ciobanu Romania Editor: Editura Medicala BUCURESTI ISBN: 9733904570 | |
| The Cigarette Century (2007) Allan M Brandt United States Editor: Basic Books Website: click here
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| The Development of Philip Morris's position on environmental tobacco smoke for its website Jacqui Drope, Jennifer Drope United States Website: click here
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| The Economics of Tobacco Control (1998) Towards an Optimal Policy Mix South Africa Editor: Applied Fiscal Research Centre ISBN: 1875098291 | Buy this book | |
| The Evidence of Health Promotion Effectiveness : Evidence Book Assessment of 20 years Evidence of the Health, Social, Economic and Political Impacts of Health Promotion International Union for Health Promotion and Education for the European Commission United States | |
| The Fight for Public Health (1994) Principles and Practice of Media Advocacy Simon Chapman and Deborah Lupton United Kingdom Editor: British Medical Journal Books ISBN: 0727908499 | Buy this book | |
| The Millennium Development Goals and Tobacco Control United States Website: click here
| | This study demonstrates the relevance of tobacco control
in achieving each of the eight United Nations Millennium
Development Goals. It outlines the occurrence of the high yet
increasing prevalence of tobacco use in the developing world,
and documents the negative impact that tobacco cultivation and
tobacco use have on poverty and development. Global partnership
is deemed to be important in strengthening tobacco control,
which all nations and their development agencies are urged
to address as an aspect of policy. Th e study recommends that
tobacco control should be included as a vital ingredient contributing
towards the attainment of the Millennium Development
Goals. To this end, countries are encouraged to become Parties
to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, which
is an essential tool to bring about tobacco control in all countries,
whatever their stage of socioeconomic development. |
| The Politics of Despair (1993) Power and Resistance: Power and Resistance in the Tobacco Wars Tracy Campbell United States Editor: Univ Pr of Kentucky ISBN: 0813118212 | Buy this book | |
| The Politics of Tobacco (1996) Policy Networks and the Cigarette Industry Melvyn Read and Melvyn D. Read United States Editor: Avebury ISBN: 1856286614 | Buy this book | |
| The Scientific Basis of Tobacco Product Regulation Website: click here
| | The Tobacco Free Initiative announces the release of a WHO Study Group on Tobacco Product Regulation (TobReg) report on the scientific basis of tobacco product regulation. This report presents policy recommendations on the contents and design features of tobacco products, their relationship to dependence potential and consumer appeal;candy-flavoured tobacco products; biomarkers of tobacco exposure and resulting health effects; and, maximum limits for tobacco smoke toxicants. The Study Group hopes that these recommendations will be useful to WHO Member States, and national policymakers and regulators.The English printed version is now available, and the other UN language versions will be available soon. Will soon be on the TFI website. |
| The Seduction of Harm Reduction (2005) Proceedings from the September 2004 Summit Rhonda Robins United States Editor: California Department of Health Services - Tobacco Control Section | |
| The Success Story of Peasant Tobacco Production in Tanzania (1983) Jannik & Mohele, A. T. Boesen Tanzania Editor: Holmes & Meier Pub ISBN: 0841997578 | Buy this book | |
| The Tobacco Atlas (2006) Judith Mackay, Michael Eriksen, Omar Shafey United States Editor: American Cancer Society/UICC Website: click here
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| The Tobacco Book (2005) David B. Moyer United States Editor: Sunstone Press ISBN: 0865343829 | Buy this book | |
| The Tobacco Industry Documents. What they are, what they tell us and how to search them. A Practical Manual United States Website: click here
| | In 1998, six million once secret documents from seven cigarette manufacturers doing business in the US became available
to the public as a result of legal action. There were documents from 7 cigarette manufacturers and two affi liated organizations:
Philip Morris Incorporated, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, British American Tobacco
Industries, Lorillard Tobacco Company, the American Tobacco Company, the Liggett Group, the Tobacco Institute and the Council
for Tobacco Research. The documents that include letters, fax, memos, etc written by company scientist, consultants, lawyers,
top executives, other employees and outside organizations amounted to over 35 million pages.
In 2002, the WHO Regional Offi ce for the Eastern Mediterranean published the fi rst edition of The tobacco industry documents:
what they are, what they tell us, and how to search them. A practical manual. The aim was to help journalists, public health
professionals and advocates, government offi cials and the public to search these documents and thereby expand their use
outside academia. Recognizing the value of the information contained in these internal industry document archives, while also
acknowledging its limitations, the WHO Tobacco Free Initiative decided to publish a second edition of the manual.
The information provided in these documents, as well as the reports that have been prepared describing their content, provide
a wealth of information about some of the plans and processes of the tobacco companies in their attempt to delay or obstruct
tobacco control measures and policies. Only a fraction of the documents’ content has been explored, and additional knowledge
about the tobacco companies’ activities at the regional, national and local levels could assist policy-makers, government
employees and nongovernmental organizations in the development of tobacco control strategies as the world moves towardsthe
implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC).
This revised and updated edition addresses the increasing need to support WHO Member States to search the tobacco industry
documents and aims to provide key information for future tobacco control strategies. It is also in compliance with World Health
Assembly resolution 54.18 (2001), which calls on WHO to continue to inform Member States of the activities of the tobacco
industry that have a negative impact on tobacco control efforts. |
| The Tobacco Road Dorothea Shefer Israel Editor: Shefer Publishing ISBN: 9659048408 | |
| Tobacco Advertising: The Great Seduction (Sciffer Book for Collectors) (1996) Gerard S. Petrone United States Editor: Sciffer Pub. Ltd. ISBN: 0887409725 | Buy this book | |
| Tobacco and Women's Health (1998) Hannu Vierola, M.D. Finland Editor: Art House Oy ISBN: 9518842361 | |
| Tobacco Control Comparative Politics in the United States and Canada Donley T. Studlar United States | | Tobacco Control is the first book to compare the politics of tobacco control in the United States and Canada. It describes the course of tobacco control policy, both regulation and taxation, in each country, and on several different levels of government. In doing so it provides a broad overview, showing how policies are similar or different, how they have changed over time, and how the two countries have learned from each other. In recent years the two countries have paid closer attention to each other's policies, both through governmental and non-governmental organizations, and each has leapfrogged the policy initiatives of the other. Now the Tobacco-Free Initiative of the World Health Organization is bringing tobacco control policy to a global level, and both countries are deeply involved. This book is a revealing exploration and comparison of the development of North American policies and the influence these policies are having in the attempt to regulate a major international business in the interests of public health. |
| Tobacco control country profiles Second edition - 2003 Omar Shafey, Suzanne Dolwick, G. Emmanuel Guindon United States Website: click here
| | The Tobacco Control Country Profiles features a comprehensive
compilation of statistical information about the
world’s most significant cancer risk factor: tobacco use. In
the United States, tobacco causes 30% of cancer deaths
among men and women. As the tobacco industry intensifies
its marketing strategies in developing countries, the proportion
of tobacco-attributed deaths worldwide continues to
increase. The Tobacco Control Country Profiles is one
element in a growing global information system to monitor
the pandemic and support international tobacco control
efforts. |
| Tobacco Control in Bangladesh (2003) The Man Behind M.A. Jabbar and A.I. Islam, Editors Bangladesh Editor: Anwara-Nur Welfare Trust ISBN: 984320630 | | Collection of Articles written by Dr. Nurum Islam whose name is inseparably linked with tobacco control in Bangladesh and who, in 1987, founded ADHUNIK the first and only National anti-tobacco organisation in Bangladesh. |
| Tobacco Control Legislation (2003) An Introductory Guide D Douglas Blanke (Ed.) United States Editor: Wold Health Organization ISBN: 9241590661 | |
| Tobacco Control Policy (2003) Strategies, Successes and Setbacks Joy de Beyer and Linda Waverley Brigden (Eds) United States Editor: The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, The World Bank ISBN: 0821354027 | Buy this book | |
| Tobacco Counter Health Vol 2 (2002) WATCH 2002 Proceedings A.K.Varma India Editor: Macmillan India Ltd ISBN: 1403908435 | |
| Tobacco industry and corporate responsibility... An inherent contradiction United States Website: click here
| | World Health Organization
Increasingly consumers, employees and managers expect companies, particularly large multinationals, to go beyond their traditional role of creating, producing, packaging and selling—for a profit. In the public’s view, job creation and tax paying no longer suffice as private sector’s sole contribution to society. The boom of socially responsible investment (SRI) products attest to this trend as investors express their concerns and make their social and ethical stands known to the companies they invest in and patronize. Socially responsible investors include individuals, corporations, universities, hospitals, foundations, and insurance companies, pension funds, non-profit organizations, churches and synagogues. Funds may exclude certain products or practices such as alcohol, weapons, pollution, animal testing or gambling; or they may seek to actively identify positive aspects of companies that adopt sound policies for environmental protection, fair employment practices, community and labor relations, for example. The common denominator among the vast majority of ethical or socially responsible investment policies and products is the exclusion of tobacco companies in their portfolios.I Well-planned and well-managed philanthropy, from sponsoring music, film and art festivals to creating education programs for the disadvantaged to protecting the environment, in the name of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become a necessary element in virtually every large corporation’s business plan. Many businesses from a wide range of sectors conduct projects and programmes that aim to reduce social inequity—by creating or improving health care or educational facilities, providing vocational and management training, enhancing the quality of leisure and cultural activities. Specific sectors are recognizing their responsibilities and orient their CSR efforts to areas especially relevant to their business. For example, food and beverage multinationals have specific responsibilities in terms of product marketing, consumers’ changing eating habits, and conditions under which agricultural commodities are produced and traded. Transport companies must contend with the environmental impact of their business as well as traffic congestion, energy waste, safety and security and access to trade and enterprise opportunities. |
| Tobacco: People Profits and Public Health (1997) Gary E. McCuen United States Editor: Gem Pubns ISBN: 0865961425 | Buy this book | |
| TobReg - Advisory Note Waterpipe Tobacco Smoking Health Effects, Research Needs and Recommended Actions by Regulators United States Website: click here
| | The Tobacco Free Initiative announces the release of a WHO Study Group on Tobacco Product Regulation scientific advisory note on waterpipe tobacco smoking. This advisory note addresses the growing concerns about the increasing prevalence and potential health effects of tobacco smoking using waterpipes, a practice which dates back for at least four centuries in Africa and Asia. The note will provide guidance to WHO Member States and other research agencies interested in a more thorough understanding of the health effects of waterpipe smoking. The English printed version will be available in October 2005. This document will also be translated to and printed in Arabic. |
| TobReg Recommendation Guiding Principles for the Development of Tobacco Product Research and Testing Capacity and Proposed Protocols for the Initiation of Tobacco Product Testing United States Website: click here
| | French;http://www.who.int/tobacco/global_interaction/tobreg/TobReg_1_french.pdf Spanish;http://www.who.int/tobacco/global_interaction/tobreg/TobReg_spanish.pdf Arabic;http://www.who.int/tobacco/global_interaction/tobreg/TobReg_arabic.pdf Chinese;http://www.who.int/tobacco/global_interaction/tobreg/TobReg_Chinese.pdf Russian;http://www.who.int/tobacco/global_interaction/tobreg/TobReg_Russian.pdf |
| Towards health with justice Litigation and public inquiries as tools for tobacco control D. Douglas Blanke,William Mitchell United States Website: click here
| | Over the years, evidence has proved that tobacco companies have undertaken, and are
still undertaking, a great number of activities to impede health action. It has also been
proven beyond doubt that these companies have hidden many facts about the hazards
of smoking, that they have fought against the imposition of tobacco control laws and
that they have attempted to influence decision-makers everywhere in order to oppose
tobacco control measures.
Tobacco companies have been using all possible tools to market their deadly product in
full knowledge of its harmful nature. Inevitably, the time has now come for public
health workers to fight fire with rigour. Public health workers must also use all means
available to them in order to achieve their objective of eradicating the tobacco
epidemic.
The World Health Organization's Tobacco Free Initiative (TFI) has recognized the need
for public health workers to diversify their tobacco control efforts into fields other than
science. During the course of the past year, TFI has developed a strategy for mobilizing
public inquiries in order to open up the arena for the diversification process.
This monograph has been developed by TFI in order to provide both countries and
individuals at national, regional and global levels with information, support and
technical assistance on litigation and public inquiries as tools for tobacco control. These
two elements are key emerging techniques in the field of tobacco control. Therefore, it
is crucial that public health workers seize this opportunity to step beyond the realm of
science and medical statistics and embrace other techniques and tools for tobacco
control.
This monograph is based on the "Consultation on Litigation and Public Inquiries as
Public Health Tools" organized and held by WHO Regional Office for the Eastern
Mediterranean Region, in collaboration with WHO headquarters, from 5 to 7 February
2001, in Amman, Jordan. During this Consultation, more than 20 Member States
expressed an urgent need to understand the scope and magnitude of litigation and
public inquires as tools for tobacco control in order to determine the best ways to
combine science and law in curbing the tobacco epidemic.
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Diseases related to tobacco use kill more than four million people every year. The
Eastern Mediterranean Region in particular faces a great challenge due to high rates of
tobacco consumption. In most of the countries of this Region, the rates of smoking are
50% in men and more than 10% in women. The situation among the youth of both
sexes is particularly serious. In some Member States the prevalence reaches the level of
20%. These terrifying figures are the outcome of direct and indirect advertising
campaigns that promote tobacco, and are a strong warning. If the present situation
continues, this Region will be faced with disaster.
Confident as we are of the legitimacy of our cause and our purpose, we must act
together as health workers and cooperate with other community sectors to take a
united stand against the strongest threat to health in the modern age. We need to
urge all other sectors to take part in tobacco control activities. This step has been
facilitated through the tremendous work done by TFI to put together this monograph.
The work that started with WHO inquiry report on tobacco industry activities to
undermine tobacco control efforts in WHO was released in July 2000, has led to the
release of two important Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office documents, Voice of
Truth, Volumes 1 and 2. I hope and anticipate that this monograph will generate even
more support for tobacco control in the Region and the world as a whole.
Finally, I would like to thank all those who contributed to this monograph and urge that
collaboration continue between TFI and all Regions, so that such successful work may
be undertaken on a wider scale.
Dr Hussein A. Gezairy
Regional Director
WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region |
| Unfiltered: Conflicts over Tobacco Policy and Public Health (2004) Eric A. Feldman and Ronald Bayer United States Editor: Harvard University Press | | Tobacco, among the most popular consumer products of the 20th century, is under attack. Once a behavior that knew no social bounds, cigarette smoking has been transformed into an activity that reflects sharp differences in social status.
Unfiltered tells the story of how anti-smoking advocates, public health professionals, bureaucrats, and tobacco corporations have clashed over the regulation of smoking. The nations discussed in this book—Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States—restrict tobacco advertising, tax tobacco products, and limit where people can smoke. Each is also struggling to shape a tobacco policy that ensures corporate accountability, protects individual liberty, and asserts the state’s public health power.
Unfiltered offers a comparative perspective on legal, political, and social conflicts over tobacco control. The book makes a unique contribution to our understanding of how scientific evidence, global health advocacy, individual risk assessments, and governmental interests intersect in the crafting of tobacco policy. It features national case studies and cross-cultural essays by experts in health policy, law, political science, history, and sociology. The lessons in Unfiltered are crucial to all of those who seek to understand and to influence tobacco policy and to reduce tobacco-related morbidity and mortality worldwide. |
| WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control United States Website: click here
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| Women and the tobacco epidemic (2001) Challenges for the 21st century Jonathan M.Samet, Soon-Young Yoon United States Website: click here
| | his book supports a powerful
and important concept—that
the rights of women and children
to health are basic human
prerogatives. Four million
unnecessary deaths per year,
11,000 every day—it is rare, if
not impossible to find examples
in history that match tobacco’s
programmed trail of death and destruction. If current
growth rates continue, by 2020, tobacco use will be
responsible for about 10% of the global burden of disease.
By then, we can expect over four million additional
deaths caused by tobacco. Most alarming, the
rates of smoking are increasing among youth and
young women in several regions of the world. In the
areas of the world where tobacco use is still relatively
low among women and girls, a golden opportunity
exists for preventing increased uptake and future premature
deaths. |
| X20 (1997) A Novel of (Not) Smoking Richard Beard United States Editor: Arcade Publishing, New York ISBN: 1559703997 | Buy this book | |
| You are the Target - Big Tobacco (2002) Lies, scams. Now the truth Georgina Lovell Canada Editor: Chryan Communications ISBN: 0973067004 | Buy this book | |
| You Can Stop Smoking (2007) Jennifer Percival Editor: Virgin Books ISBN: 9780753511435 | Buy this book | | You Can Stop Smoking is a comprehensive, interactive step-by-step book based on proven methods that have helped thousands of people to successfully give up smoking. With a foreword by Richard Branson, this unique guide aims to help you quit for good and reclaim your life.
It contains all the practical and accessible advice, information and support you need to go through the quitting journey. Including:
x Planning your campaign to quit
x Coping with nicotine withdrawal
x Avoiding relapse situations
Full of quizzes, questionnaires and other interactive elements, the book allows you to tailor the plan to your own needs and circumstances, enabling you to give up successfully even you have struggled in the past. The books author, Jennifer Percival is a qualified nurse, midwife and health visitor who has worked in Tobacco control and cessation since 1995. She is currently the UK's Royal College of Nursing, Tobacco Policy advisor. |
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