Author: Mark Wolfson
Publisher: Aldine Transaction
Keywords: social, issues, problems, paper, proglems, health, tobacco, movement, state, public, fight
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2001-08
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0202305988
ISBN-13: 9780202305981

The use of tobacco is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States. Over the past twenty-five years, a formidable social movement has emerged in response to this vital public health problem. How has the tobacco control movement become such a significant force in shaping contemporary public policy, social norms, and the habits of millions of Americans? The Fight against Big Tobacco develops two central arguments to answer this question. First, the movement was able to grow rapidly by building upon a rich "infrastructure" of health organizations and networks of health pro