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A Critique of Nicotine Addiction | Hanan Frenk, Reuven Dar, Dept. of Psychology, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Outline: Nicotine is almost universally believed to be the major factor that motivates smoking and impedes cessation. Authorities such as the Surgeon General of the USA and the Royal College of Physicians in the UK have declared that nicotine is as addictive as heroin and cocaine. This book is a critique of…
Addiction is a Choice | Jeffrey Schaler, Ph.D.
Outline: Written for both lay and professional readers, this book offers new approaches to understanding addiction and the public policies necessary to successfully battle its detrimental effects on society. The author explains why current policies are ineffective and how they fail to cure the "problem.&…
Butt Out | Patrick Basham
Outline: This book argues that giving the FDA the authority and the responsibility for a good chunk of the tobacco file is a terrible public health policy blunder, especially given the significance of US tobacco control for the rest of the world, effectively giving it a large measure of responsibility for global…
Chemical Sensitivity: The Truth About Environmental Illness | Stephen J. Barrett, Ronald E. Gots
Outline: Dissent means anathema, and accusations of corruption. Dissenting on the never-demonstrated effects of passive smoking means being stooges of Big Tobacco; dissenting on the never-demonstrated anthropogenic causation of global warming means being stooges of Big Oil; needless to say, dissenting…
Cigarette Wars: The Triumph of 'The Little White Slaver' | Cassandra Tate
Outline: A brief yet detailed history of the fluctuating popularity of the cigarette in America and of the reform movements dedicated to snuffing it out. According to journalist and historian Tate, in her first book, when James B. Duke created the modern American cigarette industry in the 1880s, the cigarette…
Cigarettes: Anatomy of an Industry from Seed to Smoke | Tara Parker-Pope
Outline: Cigarettes chronicles the controversies of a 350-billion-dollar industry, telling the fast-paced business story of cigarettes — from seed to smoke — that surprises as it entertains. In a book Publishers Weekly calls "an absorbing and informative history of cigarettes,&…
Climate of Fear: Why We Shouldn't Worry about Global Warming | Thomas Moore
Outline: The book calls into question the entire campaign led by Vice President Al Gore and others to ratify the proposed treaty on global warming scheduled to be debated in the U.S. Senate early in 1998.
Diet Nation: Exposing the Obesity Crusade | John Luik, Patrick Basham, Gio Gori
Outline: At the fag end of 2008, two experts look back at puffed-up claims about smoking bans and the ‘obesity epidemic’. Two of the most cherished claims of the health lobby during 2008 have been that public smoking bans reduce smoking and that we are in the midst of an unending epidemic of overweight…
Dissecting Antismokers' Brains | Michael McFadden
Outline: Dissecting Antismokers' Brains dumps traditional "conspiracy theory" thinking about social movements and examines the rise of public feeling against smokers and smoking as the being the product of a number of diverse groups and individuals with differing motivations. Today's…
Does Advertising Increase Smoking? | Hugh High
Outline: Professor Hugh High provides a critical survey of the effects of tobacco advertising. He argues that 'there is no evidence that advertising of tobacco leads to an increase in the total consumption of tobacco,' and in particular finds scant evidence of the effect of advertising in inducing the young…
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