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2) Smoking
Author
Publisher
Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date
[2015]
Lexile measure
700L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (48 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Discusses how tobacco companies advertise cigarettes, the dangers and costs of tobacco, and ways to avoid peer pressure. Features a diagram of the chemicals in a cigarette, quotes, color photographs, resources, and a glossary.
Author
Series
Publisher
Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxviii,135 pages)
Language
English
Description
"This book is an easy-to-use resource for teens who want to learn more about why nicotine and tobacco are bad for your health and how to quit using them. The information and guidance it offers make it a valuable tool for young adult readers with questions and concerns about smoking"--
4) Smoking
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Pub. Date
©2000
Physical Desc
1 online resource (viii, 244 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Nicotine is almost universally believed to be the major factor that motivates smoking and impedes cessation. Authorities such as the Surgeon General of the USA and the Royal College of Physicians in the UK have declared that nicotine is as addictive as heroin and cocaine. This book is a critique of the nicotine addiction hypothesis, based on a critical review of the research literature that purports to prove that nicotine is as addictive drug. The...
Publisher
National Academy Press
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiii, 306 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
A report from the Committee on Preventing Nicotine Addiction in Children and Youths, Division of Behavioral Sciences and Mental Disorders, the Institute of Medicine.
Author
Series
Atelier volume 13
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
"Indonesia is the world's second largest cigarette market: two out of three men smoke, and clove-laced tobacco cigarettes called kretek make up 95 percent of the market. To account for the staggering success of this lethal industry, Kretek Capitalism moves beyond a focus on the addictive hold of nicotine to examine how kretek manufacturers have adopted global tobacco technologies and enlisted Indonesians to labor on their behalf in fields and factories,...
Author
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (411 pages)
Language
English
Description
"In the 1930s, menthols were 3% of the smoking market but by the 1970s, they accounted for a quarter and climbing. What explains this rise? Moreover, how did it happen that early into the new millennium an estimated 75% of Black smokers, compared to 30% of white smokers, chose menthol brands? Pushing Cool covers the contentious history of the menthol cigarette. It is a story steeped in racial and gendered marketing and revealing of the "endless inventiveness...
Author
Publisher
University Press of Florida
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xvi, 169 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book discusses how historical archaeology is well positioned to explore the role that tobacco and smoking played in the formation of American identities and cultural practices over a span of three centuries.
Publisher
Institute of Medicine, National Academy Press
Pub. Date
©2001
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xix, 636 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
The National Academy Press, based in Washington, D.C. presents the full text of the book entitled "Clearing the Smoke: Assessing the Science Base for Tobacco Harm Reduction," edited by Kathleen Stratton, Padma Shetty, Robert Wallace, and Stuart Bondurant. The book was originally published in 2001. The book discusses the evaluation of products that claim to reduce the need to smoke while allowing nicotine consumption.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Maddie Sykes is a burgeoning seamstress who's just arrived in Bright Leaf, North Carolina--the tobacco capital of the South--where her aunt has a thriving sewing business. After years of war rations and shortages, Bright Leaf is a prosperous wonderland in full technicolor bloom, and Maddie is dazzled by the bustle of the crisply uniformed female factory workers, the palatial homes, and, most of all, her aunt's glossiest clientele: the wives of the...
Series
Technical report volume TR-1261-ATSC
Publisher
RAND Corporation
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxvi, 66 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Language
English
Description
The Tobacco Settlement Proceeds Act, a referendum passed by Arkansans in the November 2000 election, invests Arkansas' share of the tobacco Master Settlement Agreement funds in seven health-related programs. RAND was contracted to perform a comprehensive evaluation of the progress of the seven programs in fulfilling their missions, as well as the effects of the programs on smoking and other health-related outcomes. This report discusses the Arkansas...
19) Nicotine
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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