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Simon Chapman is one of the world8217;s leading advocates for tobacco control, having won the coveted Luther Terry and WHO medals. His experience straddles 30 years of activism, highly original research and analysis, having run advocacy training on every continent and editing the British Medical Jou...
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470692479 |
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Simon Chapman is one of the world8217;s leading advocates for tobacco control, having won the coveted Luther Terry and WHO medals. His experience straddles 30 years of activism, highly original research and analysis, having run advocacy training on every continent and editing the British Medical Journal's Tobacco Control research journal. In this often witty and personal book, he lays out a program for making smoking history. He eviscerates ineffective approaches, condemns overly enthusiastic policies which ignore important ethical principles, and provides a cookbook of strategy and tactics |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xv, 328 p.) : ill. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-324) and index. |
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9780470692479 0470692472 9780470691632 (electronic bk.) 0470691638 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | HV5732 |
| CLC: | R163.2 |
| Contents: | Cover -- TOC36;Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part I Major Challenges for Tobacco Control This Century -- CH36;Chapter 1 Death is Inevitable44; So Why Bother With Tobacco Control63; Ethical Issues and Tobacco Control -- The ethics of tobacco control -- The ethics of smokers 34;knowingly34; harming themselves -- 34;Informed34; smokers58; policy implications -- What is a 34;fully or adequately informed34; smoker63; -- The tobacco industry39;s current information inaction -- Ethical implications of addiction in tobacco control -- When smoking harms others -- Ethical aspects of the s |