Tobacco Books

This book is great to give to your local elementary school. Lots of facts about tobacco addiction mixed with incredible smokefree ads created by youth.

This book is an incredible journey in picture and word thru Indonesian history, a wonderful "coffeetable" book, but also a fascinating perspective on third world, subsistance economy, growth and the lack thereof. The nostalgia of the early travels and trade route thru the Spice Islands wafts from every page and picture like sweet incense. There is nothing more satisfying, however politically incorrect, than a tasty Kretek coupled with sweet, black tea and heavy cream! The faces of these beautiful people, aged, yet energetic, with a determinism unseen outside of Kansas, their portraits alone are worth the price!

La Diva Nicotina is a comprehensive narrative of tobacco usage by mankind as recorded in both written and oral history. The book covers the origins of tobacco use in the New World, its spread to the Old World via European explorers, and the transformation of tobacco business from family-owned plots to multinational corporations. Along the way, the book highlights the various ways governments have alternated between trying to stem the flow of its use, and trying to maximize its use as a way to improve tax reveneus.

The book covers the science behind tobacco. It shows the different processes used to convert the tobacco plant to consumer products. It also explains the effects nicotine has on human bodies, and how this is affected by the many additives often incorporated into cigarettes. The book describes the agriculture of tobacco, and clearly shows how this lent itself to slave labor in contrast with many other crops.

The book includes numerous anecdotes of individuals involved in the history of tobacco, such as the Turkish ruler who would prowl his city streets in disguise asking pedestrians for an illegal smoke, and then beheade those kind enough and unfortunate enough to offer him the banned substance. All in all, a great history book.

This historical account of research on a viral model system is educational and fun to read. It illuminates scientific research and lives of researchers, which should be of interest to scientists and laymen alike. Alot of emphasis is placed on personal scientific communication and the role government played in shaping post-WWII science.
The review is comprehensively researched and well written. The account highlights the role played by model systems in biological research as well as the impact it had on unexpected areas of bacteriology, genetic basis of heredity, etc.
Great fun to read.

In this day and age smoking is anathema. People of all stripes, colours and class are lobbed into one gooey heck of a low opinion if they smoke. Who knew such a book existed! Could exist! It does. It reads quite well and is packed full of little known (or shared) facts and advice.
An excellent read and resource.

This is an extremely powerful book about the history and current implications of racial injustice in America. It does an outstanding job of assessing the impact of slavery on America's social and economic development, in quick-moving prose that is both compelling and often entertaining. Uninitiated readers like myself will appreciate its provocative and eye opening perspective on the history and state of our nation, while scholars of American history will be interested in the original contributions it makes to the reparations debate.

One of the reviews on the back of the book is by Cornell West, a highly regarded author and professor at Princeton University:

"Reparations continues to be a burning issue in Black America. When will the country as a whole confront its deep implications? This book is a great help for us. Don't miss it!"

I run a cigar shop, and this is the best cigar guide book which I use myself and would highly recommend to anyone, from beginners to experts.

My title is used by the author to describe the outcome of the conflict between tobacco buying monopolies and tobacco farmers in Kentucky and Tennessee in the early 1900s. The so-called Black Patch War and related attempts in central Kentucky's burley region to resist monopoly began with the creation, in 1889, of the American Tobacco Company by James B. Duke. Competition ended, prices fell below the cost of production, and recalcitrant farmers responded by attempting to "out organize the organizers." The more well known sensational aspects of this saga ensued with the Night Riders or "Silent Brigade" of farmers belonging to the Planters Protective Association coercing independent farmers or "hillbillies." The most spectacular raid occurred on Hopkinsville, KY in 1907 in which 500 masked men wreaked havoc, causing $200,000 damage and spurring reluctant government officials into action.

Tracy Campbell's book recounts the end of small farmer republicanism and the rise of agribusiness. He clearly sympathizes with the farmers, with the book's central focus pitting the forces of monopoly against the ability of tobacco producers to organize and maintain unanimity. He identifies with the farmers' emphasis on the common good and assails private accumulation. This book successfully broadens the scope of earlier Night Rider interpretation from simply the violence to the rise and fall of the "movement culture." The Black Patch War is placed in the tradition of American agrarian unrest and insurgency. This book is well written, researched, and organized. Some disagreement regarding his conclusions by historians inevitably resulted, but it warrants reading by anyone interested in rural or agricultural history or the more salacious aspects of business-labor unrest. The violence of the War and the region in general are also expertly related and analyzed in Suzanne Marshall's Violence in the Black Patch of Kentucky and Tennessee. Campbell's work stresses the harm to society created by sanctioned monopoly and claims that the entire episode previews "ominous things to come." In the words of Night Rider organizer Dr. David Amoss, "It is a fight between the working classes and the plutocracy, those who labor, and those who exploit labor,... a fight to the finish."

From: British Medical Journal October 2007

"He takes up some of the hottest issues in contemporary tobacco control worldwide and shows us their ethical, political, and policy complexities. Chapman's chapter on harm reduction and product regulation is one of the most nuanced pieces I've ever read on this contentious topic, which threatens to seriously divide the tobacco control movement.

Situating the issue within the history of industry product engineering, he reminds readers of the "lights" debacle, from which tobacco control advocates still have much to learn. The tobacco industry developed so called light cigarettes that delivered less tar and nicotine, as measured by machine. However, it was determined only much later (after millions of smokers switched to lights, thinking they would be safer) that lights were no safer at all, because people covered the specially engineered ventilation holes that allowed the lower levels measured by machine, and they "compensated" by smoking more and more deeply--facts that the industry knew all along. Given the recent interest by major multinational companies in acquiring manufacturers of smokeless tobacco products, Chapman argues for a strong regulatory regime. Under such a regime the amounts of specific, known harmful constituents in all tobacco products would be reduced and product distribution would be curtailed, but he warns that such tinkering should not divert tobacco control from its primary focus.

Chapman's book is serious scholarship, but don't mistake it for some spiritless tome that only academics will want to slog through. Anyone remotely interested in public health advocacy, ethics, and policy--not only related to tobacco--will find it a rewarding read. Chapman blends history, policy, ethics, and advocacy in a witty, engaging, and accessible way. Discussing Australia's laws on smoke-free areas, for example, he observes: "For a time in Australia, you could not smoke within two metres of a bar, this being deemed sensible to protect bar staff from harm. But at 2.01 metres, the idea was that they can breathe easy. There was the small problem that everyone forgot to tell the smoke it had to keep back. Anyone with an IQ a point higher than it takes to grunt understood that something was very wrong here."

Chapman sees informed advocacy as part and parcel of public health, and the second half of the book is an A to Z of advocacy, focusing on tobacco but packed with useful gems for advocates in any area of health and drawn from his own long experience with advocacy at many levels. Perhaps it's not quite the Sistine Chapel ceiling, but Chapman--who began his artistic career as an advocate defacing cigarette billboards with witty counter-phrases--knows how to think strategically about the best ways to move from symbolic gestures to genuine policy change. This book should stimulate many productive actions towards ending the holocaust."
Professor Ruth Malone, University of California, San Francisco

Okay, so it was the original title "Quit smart : a guide to freedom from cigarettes" that I used oh those many years ago, but I'll guarantee that this one is as good if not even better than the original edition! I tried all the books, the tapes, the pills (no easily accessible patch at the time), and then I found "Quit Smart". It laid everything out in three basic steps: 1) Preparing to become a nonsmoker, 2) Becoming a nonsmoker & the hardest 3) Remaining a nonsmoker. I read it and followed the program and it really worked. I passed it on to a friend and never saw it again. She said that it helped her and her friends. I highly recommend this book. It actually made the process less painful. To this day, I have not touched a cigarette, and I feel great ... Oh, and the author also has a method to help you from gaining weight when you quit. That works, too. I really only gained about 5 pounds. If you really want to quit smoking, buy this book. You won't regret it!