Regulating Tobacco

This collection includes essays by eleven leading public health experts economists physicians political scientists and lawyers whose activities encompass Congressional testimonies Surgeon General''s reports on youth smoking and clinical trials for drugs for smoking cessation. They analyze specific strategies that have been used to influence tobacco use including taxation regulation of advertising and promotion regulation of indoor smoking control of youth access to cigarettes and other tobacco products litigation and subsidies of smoking cessation and set them against the latest scientific findings about tobacco and the changing cultural and political setting against which policy decisions are being made.