Tobacco War

Author: Stanton A. Glantz
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0520222865
Category: Medical

Tobacco War: Inside the California Battles

Tobacco War charts the dramatic and complex history of tobacco politics in California over the past quarter century. Download Tobacco War medical books for free.
Beginning with the activities of a small band of activists who, in the 1970s, put forward the radical notion that people should not have to breathe second-hand tobacco smoke, Stanton Glantz and Edith Balbach follow the movement through the 1980s, when activists created hundreds of city and county ordinances by working through their local officials, to the present--when tobacco is a highly visible issue in American politics and smoke-free restaurants and bars are a reality throughout the state. The authors show how these accomplishments rest on the groundwork laid over the past two decades by tobacco control activists who Get Tobacco War our bestseller medical books.

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