Encyclopedia of Smoking and Tobacco

Here's a comprehensive reference guide that gives readers the entire story about the volatile issue of smoking in North America from the 1600s to the present. This encyclopedia is the ideal source for understanding today's controversies in a historical context. It offers something for everyone, covering social, legal, medical, science, business, and international issues. The A-Z format offers nearly 600 entries (400-800 words each), plus charts, tables, a list of selected topics, and more than 70 photographs. Its chronology starts with Columbus and continues through recent lawsuits. And its appendixes cover a wide range of information, from Surgeon General's reports, to essays by expert contributors, to landmark legal cases regarding workplace issues.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Guide to Selected Topics
Encyclopedia of Smoking and Tobacco
Appendix 1: Contributed Essays
Women, Tobacco, and Health by Michele H. Bloch, M. D. , Ph. D.
Unions: Labor's Role in Tobacco Control by Regina Carlson
The Tobacco Products Liability Project's Top 10 Tobacco Cases by Mark Gottlieb
SmokeLess States Coalitions and Tobacco Control by Thomas P. Houston, M. D.
Safe Cigarettes by John Slade, M. D.
Warning Labels: Legal Protection for the Tobacco Industry by Elizabeth M. Whelan
Appendix 2: Surgeon General's Reports 1964-1998
Appendix 3: Secondhand Smoke Timeline
Appendix 4: Tobacco Taxation in Countries of the European Union
Appendix 5: Workplace and Smoking: Selected Landmark Cases
Appendix 6: Ten Selected Tobacco Advertising Agencies
Chronology
Bibliography and Web Sites
Index