Public Health Advocacy and Tobacco Control. Making Smoking History
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Author(s): S. Chapman
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
ISBN: 9781405161633
Format: softback
328pp
Price: £29.99
Review Date: 18 December 2007
Review: In most nations today smoking remains common, legislative controls rudimentary, and the public culture surrounding smoking one that is seen as normal. Here the author first explores what needs to be done to control tobacco control, then shows how the principles of public health advocacy can be applied to tobacco control. The book is divided into two parts. The first addresses what needs to be done in the 21st century to arrest smoking and the diseases caused by it, with the goal of reducing the risk to whole populations. The second part describes how to achieve this goal. It describes strategies and tactics of public health advocacy that can assist in ensuring that smoking is a public health priority that needs laws and regulations to curb it.