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Alcohol and Tobacco: From Basic Science to Clinical Practiceby John P. Allen, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (U.S.), Joanne B. FertigISBN 0160483743 (0-16-048374-3)
Hardcover, National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
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The Amazing Cigar: The Cigar Connoisseur's Secrets to Smoke Rings, Mystifications & Other Cool Thingsby Giovanni Livera, Jon Raucherbaumer, Earle Oaks, Devin CraneISBN 0966056728 (0-9660567-2-8)
Hardcover, Magic Marketing Concepts Inc
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Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morrisby Richard KlugerISBN 0375700366 (0-375-70036-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Softcover, Random House Inc
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Big Book of Viceby Steve VanceISBN 1563894548 (1-56389-454-8)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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The Book of Pipes & Tobaccoby Carl EhwaISBN 0394470001 (0-394-47000-1)
Hardcover, Random House
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Cigar Aficionado's: Buying Guide Ratings & Prices for More Than 1200 Cigarsby Marvin R. ShankenISBN 1881659496 (1-881659-49-6)
Softcover, Running Pr Book Pub
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Cigar Aficionado's Cigarsby Marvin R. Shanken, Running Press, Miniature Book Collection (Library of Congress)ISBN 0762400374 (0-7624-0037-4)
Hardcover, Running Pr Book Pub
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Cigar Almanacby Lew RothmanISBN 0960161015 (0-9601610-1-5)
Softcover, Esp Corp
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The Cigar : An Illustrated History of Fine Smokingby Conrad, Barnaby, IIIISBN 0811814491 (0-8118-1449-1)
Hardcover, Chronicle Books LLC
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The Cigar Companion: A Conoisseur's Guideby Anwer BatiISBN 1561382930 (1-56138-293-0)
Hardcover, Running Pr Book Pub
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Cigarette Wars: The Triumph of the Little White Slaverby Cassandra TateISBN 0195118510 (0-19-511851-0)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cigarette Wars: The Triumph of the Little White Slaver'Book summary:We live in an age when the cigarette industry is under almost constant attack. Few weeks pass without yet another report on the hazards of smoking, or news of another anti-cigarette lawsuit, or more restrictions on cigarette sales, advertising, or use. It's somewhat surprising, then, that very little attention has been given to the fact that America has traveled down this road before.
Until now, that is. As Cassandra Tate reports in this fascinating work of historical scholarship, between 1890 and 1930, fifteen states enacted laws to ban the sale, manufacture, possession, and/or use of cigarettes--and no fewer than twenty-two other states considered such legislation. In presenting the history of America's first conflicts with Big Tobacco, Tate draws on a wide range of newspapers, magazines, trade publications, rare pamphlets, and many other manuscripts culled from archives across the country. Her thorough and meticulously researched volume is also attractively illustrated with numerous photographs, posters, and cartoons from this bygone era.
Readers will find in Cigarette Wars an engagingly written and well-told tale of the first anti-cigarette movement, dating from the Victorian Age to the Great Depression, when cigarettes were both legally restricted and socially stigmatized in America. Progressive reformers and religious fundamentalists came together to curb smoking, but their efforts collapsed during World War I, when millions of soldiers took up the habit and cigarettes began to be associated with freedom, modernity, and sophistication. Importantly, Tate also illustrates how supporters of the early anti-cigarette movement articulated virtually every issue that is still being debated about smoking today; theirs was not a failure of determination, she argues in these pages, but of timing.
A compelling narrative about several clashing American traditions--old vs. young, rural vs. urban, and the late nineteenth vs. early twentieth centuries--this work will appeal to all who are interested in America's love-hate relationship with what Henry Ford once called "the little white slaver." [via]More editions of Cigarette Wars: The Triumph of the Little White Slaver:
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Cigarettes Are Sublimeby Richard KleinISBN 0822316412 (0-8223-1641-2)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cigarettes Are Sublime'Book summary:Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good. With its origins in the authors urgent desire to stop smoking, Cigarettes Are Sublime offers a provocative look at the literary, philosophical, and cultural history of smoking. Richard Klein focuses on the dark beauty, negative pleasures, and exacting benefits attached to tobacco use and to cigarettes in particular. His appreciation of paradox and playful use of hyperbole lead the way on this aptly ambivalent romp through the cigarette in war, movies (the "Humphrey Bogart cigarette"), literature, poetry, and the reflections of Sartre to show that cigarettes are a mixed blessing, precisely sublime.[via]"An elegant display of prose. . . . [Kleins] polemic is bravely cranky. The book is important for . . . situating the act of smoking in Western culture and telling us addicts, without condescension, what kind of dance were doing 10 or 20 times a day."Laura Mansnerus, New York Times Book Review
"[A] wise and timely book: it is also sly, funny, and peculiarly seductive. . . . [A] remarkable achievement."John Banville, New York Review of Books
"[A] compact history of compulsion. . . . [Kleins] book is a farewell to a loyal companion."Colson Whitehead, Voice Literary Supplement
"[A]n elegant and erudite examination of the question: If cigarettes are so bad, why do so many people insist on smoking them? A breath of fresh air in a debate that has become too stale."David Streitfeld, Washington Post Book World
"Lively, obsessive."Anthony Lane, The New Yorker
"Witty and subversive."John Leonard, The Nation
"Klein has written an exquisite book which takes us beyond a consideration of smoking as rite de passage."Max Farrar, Times Higher Education Supplement
"A languorous meditation on humanitys most futile and wasteful habit."Christopher Hitchens, The Independent on Sunday
"Many people, deciding to quit smoking, go cold turkey; others use nicotine gum or a patch. Klein, however, has taken a unique approach: the writing of this learned, elegant, and fanciful analysis ofand elegy forthe cigarette. . . . [It is] full of delightful whirls of logic and puffs of insight."Kirkus Reviews
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Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers & the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century Southby Robert Rodgers KorstadISBN 0807854549 (0-8078-5454-9)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cigarsby Tad GageISBN 0028619757 (0-02-861975-7)
Softcover, Alpha Books
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Curbing the Epidemic: Governments and the Economics of Tobacco Controlby Frank J. Chaloupka, Prabhat JhaISBN 0821345192 (0-8213-4519-2)
Softcover, World Bank
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Curing the Addiction to Profits: A Supply-Side Approach to Phasing Out Tobaccoby Dave Thompson, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Cynthia Callard, Neil E. CollishawISBN 0886274362 (0-88627-436-2)
Softcover, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
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Drinking, Smoking, and Screwing: Great Writers on Good Timesby Sara NicklesISBN 0811807843 (0-8118-0784-3)
Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Drinking, Smoking, and Screwing: Great Writers on Good Times'Book summary:Here's to the three greatest pleasures in life: a cigarette before and a martini after. Drinking, Smoking & Screwing celebrates these less-than-holy pursuits and unlocks the sweet mystery of sin with a sordid selection of essays, stories, excerpts, and poetry from noted libertines such as Mark Twain, Charles Bukowski, Henry Miller, Vladimir Nabokov, Spalding Gray, and Dorothy Parker. Also deliciously wicked is the introduction, penned by Bob Shacochis, author of Swimming the Volcano and not one to shy away from a drink, a smoke, and a... Well, you get the point. He writes, "Not to defend smokers, drinkers, and fuckers would be a terrible mistake.... The world might be simple and clean, but it wouldn't be deliciously, fascinatingly, pathetically human, would it? Nor would it be much fun." And, damn, is this book fun. --Tod Nelson [via]
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El Juradoby John Grisham, MERCE LOPEZISBN 8466617124 (84-666-1712-4)
Softcover, Ediciones B
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Environmental Tobacco Smoke: Proceedings of the International Symposium at McGill University, 1989by Donald J. Ecobichon, Joseph M. WuISBN 0669243655 (0-669-24365-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Faber Book of Smokingby James WaltonISBN 0571193226 (0-571-19322-6)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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The Firmby John GrishamISBN 0375433465 (0-375-43346-5)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Firm'Book summary:D.W. Moffett uses his youthful voice to outstanding effect in this excellent abridgment of Grisham's bestselling thriller about a Harvard Law grad aggressively recruited by a curiously obscure firm. "We're small and very selective... we screened over two thousand third-year law students at the best schools. Only one letter was sent." They've decided he's their man and to get him they offer top dollar, dangle a BMW, and woo his wife with offers impossible to refuse. But as the wide-eyed youngsters soon discover, there's a catch. Moffett gives an excellent performance, bringing the story to life with vibrant and believable characterizations and a smooth, knowing narrative. (Running time: 3 hours, 2 cassettes) --George Laney [via]
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Flip the Habit: 45 Class "A" Reasons to Quitby Nina Sullivan, Chris QuinnISBN 0762410574 (0-7624-1057-4)
Softcover, Running Pr Book Pub
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From Honey to Ashesby Claude Levi-StraussISBN 0226474895 (0-226-47489-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Havana Cigar: Cuba's Finestby Charles Del Todesco, Patrick Jantet, John O'TooleISBN 0789203278 (0-7892-0327-8)
Hardcover, Abbeville Press, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Havana Cigar: Cuba's Finest'Book summary:It appears the cigar has arrived. Long relegated to boardroom or back room card table, the cigar has emerged into broad daylight, attaining mass appeal while holding on to its macho mystique. And amid the available (or not so available) assortment of cigars, the Havana stands head and shoulders above the rest. Grown on patches of land at the western tip of Cuba, cured, and rolled following centuries-old traditions, for decades illegal in the United States, it has a flavor -- and a cachet -- all its own.
After two years in Cuba researching the production of the cigar, Charles Del Todesco has pulled together a remarkable two-part testament to this legendary status symbol. In part one he reviews the hollowed history of cigars in Cuba, then describes in detail the processes involved in creating them. The color photographs that accompany his cogent text reveal the beauty of the land and the hands and faces of the craftsmen and women behind each new Havana. Part two is an invaluable cigar reference, featuring a catalogue raisonne that provides a handsome portfolio of all Havana cigars currently available, shown actual size. An ideal introduction for the cigar neophyte as well as a superb guide for the experienced smoker, The Havana Cigar is, like its subject, without peer. [via]
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Holy Smokeby Guillermo Cabrera InfanteISBN 087951888X (0-87951-888-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Holy Smokeby Guillermo C. InfanteISBN 0879517654 (0-87951-765-4)
Hardcover, Overlook Press, The
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In Search of Pipe Dreamsby Rick NewcombeISBN 0966623916 (0-9666239-1-6)
Softcover, Sumner Books
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International Connoisseur's Guide to Cigars : The Art of Selecting and Smokingby Jane P. Resnick, Wieser, George, Jr.ISBN 1884822886 (1-884822-88-6)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Incorporated
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Kretek: The Culture and Heritage of Indonesia's Clove Cigarettesby Mark HanuszISBN 9799589800 (979-95898-0-0)
Hardcover, Equinox Pub
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Long Green: The Rise and Fall of Tobacco in South Carolinaby Eldred E. Prince, Robert R. SimpsonISBN 0820321761 (0-8203-2176-1)
Hardcover, Univ of Georgia Pr
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The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern 1492-1800by Robin BlackburnISBN 1859841953 (1-85984-195-3)
Softcover, Verso Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern 1492-1800'Book summary:At the time when European powers colonized the Americas, the institution of slavery had almost disappeared from Europe itself. Having overcome an institution widely regarded as oppressive, why did they sponsor the construction of racial slavery in their new colonies? Robin Blackburn traces European doctrines of race and slavery from medieval times to the early modern epoch, and finds that the stigmatization of the ethno-religious Other was given a callous twist by a new culture of consumption, freed from an earlier moral economy. The Making of New World Slavery argues that independent commerce, geared to burgeoning consumer markets, was the driving force behind the rise of plantation slavery. The baroque state sought - successfully - to batten on this commerce, and - unsuccessfully - to regulate slavery and race. Successive chapters of the book consider the deployment of slaves in the colonial possessions of the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Dutch, the English and the French. Each are shown to have contributed something to the eventual consolidation of racial slavery and to the plantation revolution of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It is shown that plantation slavery emerged from the impulses of civil society rather than from the strategies of the individual states. Robin Blackburn argues that the organization of slave plantations placed the West on a destructive path to modernity and that greatly preferable alternatives were both proposed and rejected. Finally he shows that the surge of Atlantic trade, premised on the killing toil of the plantations, made a decisive contribution to both the Industrial Revolution and the rise of the West. [via]
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Marketing Disease to Hispanics: The Selling of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Junk Foodsby Michael Jacobson, Bruce MaxwellISBN 0893290203 (0-89329-020-3)
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My Lady Nicotineby James M. BarrieISBN 1589633083 (1-58963-308-3)
Softcover, Fredonia Books
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The North Atlantic World in the Seventeenth Centuryby Kenneth Gordon DaviesISBN 0816607133 (0-8166-0713-3)
Hardcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The North Atlantic World in the Seventeenth Century'Book summary:[via]The North Atlantic World in the Seventeenth Century was first published in 1974. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
In his preface the author writes: "Europe's style was both courageous and ignoble, Europe's achievement both magnificent and appalling. There is less need now that Europe's hegemony is over, for pride or shame to color historical judgments." In that candid vein Mr. Davies provides a balanced and impartial history of British, French, and Dutch beginnings in North America, the Caribbean, and West Africa to the end of the seventeenth century. He contrasts two styles of empire: the planting of trading posts in order to gather fur, fish, and slaves; and the planting of people in colonies of settlement to grow tobacco and sugar. He shows that the first style, involving little outlay of capital, was favored by European merchants; the second, by rulers and landlords. In his conclusion he examines the impact made by the Europeans on the people they traded with and expropriated, and assesses the diplomatic, economic, and cultural repercussions of the North Atlantic on Europe itself.
"Should provide valuable supplementary reading in courses in British imperial and American colonial history, as well as a source of information for those who teach them." History.
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An Ounce of Prevention: Strategies for Solving Tobacco, Alcohol, and Drug Problemsby Don CahalanISBN 1555423485 (1-55542-348-5)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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The Pipe Bookby Alfred DunhillISBN 1585746533 (1-58574-653-3)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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The Pipe Companion: A Connoisseur's Guideby David WrightISBN 0762403233 (0-7624-0323-3)
Hardcover, Running Pr Book Pub
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The Pipe : The Art and Love of a Great Traditionby Robin CroleISBN 0761515070 (0-7615-1507-0)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Plant Intoxicants: A Classic Text on the Use of Mind-Altering Plantsby Jonathan Ott, Ernest Von Bibra, Ernst BibraISBN 0892814985 (0-89281-498-5)
Softcover, Inner Traditions
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Preventing Youth Access to Tobaccoby Leonard A. Jason, Stephen B. PokornyISBN 0789019639 (0-7890-1963-9)
Softcover, Haworth Pr Inc
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A Question of Intent: A Great American Battle With a Deadly Industryby David KesslerISBN 1586481215 (1-58648-121-5)
Softcover, Public Affairs
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Much of the book deals with the routine business of the FDA: orange-juice seizures, a fight to restrict the sale of body tissues from foreign sources, how he responded to complaints that syringes were found in Pepsi cans, and so on. But the driving force behind Kessler's narrative is how he slowly woke up to the possibility of regulating cigarettes. "It is too easy to be swayed by the argument that tobacco is a legal product and should be treated like any other," he writes. "A product that kills people--when used as intended--is different. No one should be allowed to make a profit from that." His story is a lesson in Washington power politics--a game he played with naiveté when he started but was expert at by the end of his tenure.
To say Kessler and his team of FDA regulators "defeated" Big Tobacco is an overstatement: they were part of a broader effort that included trial lawyers, consumer groups, and crusading journalists, and the industry hasn't exactly gone away. But they were instrumental in forcing tobacco companies to admit that nicotine is addictive and cigarettes cause cancer, and in bringing about a sea change in the industry's legal and popular standing. Kessler now believes in regulation so tight it will strangle Big Tobacco forever: "If our goal is to halt this manmade epidemic," he writes, "the tobacco industry, as currently configured, needs to be dismantled." A Question of Intent is a well-told muckraker. It unfolds deliberately, like a good detective story. Admirers of Jonathan Harr's A Civil Action, especially those with a taste for public policy, won't be disappointed. --John J. Miller [via]
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The Rainmakerby John GrishamISBN 0385339607 (0-385-33960-7)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Softcover, Prentice Hall - The Rainmaker: ISBN 0385424736 (0-385-42473-6)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group - The Rainmaker: ISBN 0440295424 (0-440-29542-4)
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Rare Smoke: The Ultimate Guide to Pipe Collectingby Richard Carleton HackerISBN 0931253101 (0-931253-10-1)
Hardcover, Rick Hacker
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The Runaway Juryby John GrishamISBN 0375433449 (0-375-43344-9)
Softcover, Random House Large Print
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Smoke: A Global History of Smokingby Sander Gilman, Zhou XunISBN 1861892004 (1-86189-200-4)
Hardcover, Reaktion Books
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Smoke: Cigars, Cigarettes, Pipes and Other CombustiblesISBN 0765191547 (0-7651-9154-7)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
Find This BookBook summary:This lavishly illustrated book provides an in-depth look at smoking tobacco. A rich historical background is complemented by vintage and modern advertisements, and a complete assortment of cigars, cigarettes, and fantastic accouterments. [via]
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Smoking Gods: Tobacco in Maya Art, History, and Religionby Francis RobicsekISBN 0806115114 (0-8061-1511-4)
Hardcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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The Sot-Weed Factorby John BarthISBN 0385240880 (0-385-24088-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Stokkebye: The Life & Good Times of a Tobacco Manby Don Jeffries, Peter Stokkebye, Scott JeffriesISBN 0972178805 (0-9721788-0-5)
Hardcover, Selective American Marketing
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Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicantsby Wolfgang SchivelbuschISBN 067974438X (0-679-74438-X)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Thank You for Smokingby Christopher BuckleyISBN 0812976525 (0-8129-7652-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thank You for Smoking'Book summary:"Nick Naylor had been called many things since becoming chief spokesman for the Academy of Tobacco Studies. But until now no one had actually compared him to Satan." They might as well have, though. "Gucci Goebbels," "yuppie Mephistopheles," and "death merchant" are just a few endearments Naylor has earned himself as the tobacco lobby's premier spin doctor. The hero of Thank You for Smoking does of course have his fans. His arguments against the neo-puritanical antismoking trends of the '90s have made him a repeat guest on Larry King, and the granddaddy of Winston-Salem wants him to be the anointed heir. Still, his newfound notoriety has unleashed a deluge of death threats.
Christopher Buckley's satirical gift shines in this hilarious look at the ironies of "personal freedom" and the unbearable smugness of political correctness. Bracing in its cynicism, Thank You for Smoking is a delightful meander off the beaten path of mainstream American ethics. And despite his hypertension-inducing, slander-splattered, morally bankrupt behavior--which leads one Larry King listener to describe him as "lower than whale crap"--you'll find yourself rooting for smoking's mass enabler. --Rebekah Warren [via]
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Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilizationby Iain GatelyISBN 0802139604 (0-8021-3960-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization'Book summary:Iain Gately's Tobacco is a sweeping cultural history of the world's most prevalent addiction, and it's probably the best book ever written on its subject. Gately begins in pre-Columbian America, where the natives made tobacco "their most popular gift to the rest of humanity," and continues through all the cantankerous smoking litigation of the 1990s. The story touches on just about every subject imaginable: tobacco in literature, the movies, and society. It would be wrong to call Gately an advocate of smoking, but he clearly takes pleasure, for example, in noting that Hitler's Nazis launched one of history's most vigorous anti-smoking initiatives. The book is full of delicious trivia: Many of Shakespeare's contemporaries smoked, but there's no evidence that the Bard himself did, and none of his plays make any mention of smoking; he "kept his writing a smoke-free zone." Nevertheless, reports Gately with a smirk, there is "archaeological evidence proving that smoking was going on around the Shakespeare household in Stratford-upon-Avon during his life." Smoking aficionados won't want to miss Tobacco, and it's a much healthier gift for them than a box of cigars. --John Miller [via]
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Tobacco and Public Health: Science and Policyby Peter Boyle, Nigel Gray, John Seffrin, Jack Henningfield, Witold ZatonskiISBN 0198526873 (0-19-852687-3)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Tobacco Control in Developing Countriesby Frank J. Chaloupka, Prabhat JhaISBN 0192632469 (0-19-263246-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tobacco Control in Developing Countries'Book summary:There is no doubt that smoking is damaging global health on an unprecedented scale. However, there is continuing debate on the economics of tobacco control, including the costs and consequences of tobacco control policies. This book aims to fill the analytic gap around this debate. This book brings together a set of critical reviews of the current status of knowledge on tobacco control. While the focus is on the needs of low-income and middle-income countries, the analyses are relevant globally. The book examines tobacco use and its consequences including new analyses of welfare issues in tobacco consumption, poverty and tobacco, and the rationale for government involvement . It provides an evidence-based review of policies to reduce demand including taxation, information, and regulation. It critically reviews supply-side issues such as trade and industry and farming issues, including new analyses on smuggling. It also discusses the impact of tobacco control programs on economies, including issues such as employment, tax revenue and welfare losses. It provides new evidence on the effectivemess and international action, including future research directions. A statistica; annex will contain information on where the reader can find data on tobacco consumption, prices, trade, employment and other items. The book is directed at academic economists and epidemiologists as well as technical staff within governments and international agencies. Students of economics, epidemiology and public policy will find this an excellent comprehensive introduction to economics of tobacco control. [via]
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Tobacco Control Policy: Strategies, Successes, and Setbacksby Joy De Beyer, Linda Waverley BrigdenISBN 0821354027 (0-8213-5402-7)
Softcover, World Bank
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A Turn in the Southby V.S. NaipaulISBN 0679724885 (0-679-72488-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Ultimate Cigar Bookby Richard Carleton HackerISBN 0931253047 (0-931253-04-7)
Hardcover, Rick Hacker
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The Ultimate Pipe Bookby Richard Carleton HackerISBN 0931253004 (0-931253-00-4)
Hardcover, Autumngold Pub
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Legitima Defensa / the Runaway Juryby John GrishamISBN 840804124X (84-08-04124-X)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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