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(Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Series on Health Policy.) Edited by Kenneth E. Warner. 590 pp. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 2006. $65. ISBN 978-0-7879-8745-9.

The major decline in U.S. tobacco use ranks with the development of vaccines and antibiotics as one of the great public health triumphs of the 20th century. How did this happen, and what lessons are there for other major health challenges, such as obesity? Tobacco Control Policy, the third volume in a series about health and health care from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, explores the extent to which tobacco-control policies have contributed to that "triumph." (In the interest of full disclosure, I should mention that I worked at the foundation between 1990 and 2002 and that I was involved . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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