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Volume 331:750-751 September 15, 1994 Number 11
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Drug Policy and Substance Abuse
Smoking Policy: Law, Politics, and Culture

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Edited by Robert L. Rabin and Stephen D. Sugarman. 243 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 1993. $35. ISBN 0-19-507231-6.

Professors Rabin and Sugarman have edited a timely book on smoking policy. It is fitting that the funding for the research and writing of the book grew out of one of the most important events in the history of tobacco control -- the passage in 1988 of Proposition 99, which raised California's cigarette tax from 10 cents to 35 cents per pack and earmarked the new revenues (more than $500 million annually) for medical care, health education, and research on tobacco.

The book has chapters on clean-indoor-air policies, health insurance policies on smoking, tobacco-related litigation, and tobacco advertising. Other chapters . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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