Tobacco Books

Alright first off I have not read the book. This is a comment on the concept of replacing smoking tobacco with smokeless(chewing) tobacco.
I am 35 and have been an 18 year smoker. LOVE my cigarettes. Feels SO good to take that smoke into my lungs. I ended up in the hospital few times because my heart was doing strange things. Had pain in my arm and very irregular heartbeat that scared the daylights out of me.
Sometimes I would get very sad thinking about my beautiful 9 year old daughter and how there is a very good chance I might die from smoking when my daughter is still very young because I cannot give up the smokes. I watched my father have many heart attacks from smoking but he kept on. "How am I ever GOING TO QUIT!!!???" I would ask myself.
Well one day a little over two weeks ago after getting out of the hospital I decided to try quitting again and this time i bought some snus(chewing tobacco).
Now the thing to realize about cigarette addiction is that it's 90% mental. yes the nicotine addiction is strong but it only lasts a week and if it were merely a matter of physical addiction we could just go a week until the nicotine had left our bodies and never think about it again. The truth is however that we are in love with our fix.
My goal was to prove this to myself. Now in the beginning I really had some strong cravings fro the smokes but I told myself that really I'm craving nicotine and forced myself to take a dip of chew even though I didn't desire it. Sure enough 10 minutes later I got the nicotine in my system and the craving for a smoke was 95% gone. Do this repeatedly. You must force yourself. It has been two weeks now and I'm hardly thinking about cigarettes at all. I cannot BELIEVE how much better I feel. My lungs have cleared a great deal and I'm already starting to run places. My heart is no longer bothering me at all. I FEEL GREAT!

Now let me address the naysayers. You will find all sorts of information on the web about how smokeless tobacco is an unsafe alternative to cigarette. Total load of BS!
Smoking related causes easily kill more America than ANYTHING!
Deaths from chewing tobacco are nowhere near the deaths from smoking. Not even close. Probably a 100x as many people die from smoking related heart attacks, emphysema and lung cancer than do from chewing tobacco.
I did the research and you should to.
This is in no way stating that Chewing tobacco is safe yet it is nowhere near as dangerous as cigarettes and you get your lungs and heart back. Now I don't love the chewing tobacco like I loved my cigarette. I smoked for my entire adult life.
However I am content with the chewing tobacco. Some day I would like to be tobacco free but for now I am content that I have added AT LEAST another 10 years onto my life. Some day when I feel confident enough and am far enough away from that smoker I once knew I will quite chewing. Quitting chewing will be easy compared to giving up my smokes.
I encourage anyone who has tried and failed to add this as an option. ANYTHING is better than smoking those poisonous tobacco sticks. It feels so good to run again. Don't fear the separation from cigarettes.
If any of this seems silly to you then consider yourself fortunate that you don't smoke.

Progress before perfection.
This is a post of gratitude.

Thank God!

If you're hooked on cigarettes, this oral cancer expert tells you precisely how to stay alive and well with the radical, but scientifically grounded advice to switch to smokeless tobacco. The author says 400,000 Americans die each year from smoking. If they all switched, they'd still satisfy their nicotine craving with almost no ill effects. He takes on the anti-tobacco movement -- including organized medicine -- and says the credo "do no harm" means telling addicted smokers to switch if they can't quit. Plain English, lots of history and science. Most helpful

this is a great book. forget what you've heard, chewing is way safer than smoking. chew takes a maximum of 3 months off of your life, and only 1 in 150 people get mouth cancer.

I've been chewing now for 4 months, and have had no problems. when you first start, you get a little sore in the gums, but it goes away after 2 weeks. i've had no staining or gum issues. brush your teeth like your supposed to and your good. there are all sorts of spitless products out there.

my clothes dont smell like smoke, i can do cardio now (i've lost 25 pounds) and i dont waste expensive cologne anymore. my taste buds work again, i don't have acid reflux issues, and my fiancee's mom loves that her whole house doesn't smell when i come visit.

no second hand smoke for my baby to breathe off my clothes (yes, and its a problem) and no dirty looks from people or the fake cough sounds as i walk by.

sure my wife hates the spitting (i prefer skoal) but she would rather deal with that and have me floss (i carry a pack on me, my teeth are in the best condition ever due to the flossing that takes place after i spit a dip) then deal with me leaving her pre maturely.

i'm 28yrs old, and in the best shape of my life internally and externally, and i have this book to thank. if not for this read, i would still be smoking and dealing with all the crap that came along with it. I highly recommend this, especially to young people.

I recently acquired this book, and couldn't put it down. I have smoked for 21 years, a pack-a-day. Before I bought this book (about a week or so), I made the decision to switch to smokeless tobacco. I came across this book and bought it to reinforce my decision.
Dr. Brad Rodu, Professor and Chair of Oral Pathology with the School of Dentistry with the University of Alabama at Birmingham, explodes all the myths and misconceptions concerning smokeless tobacco and it's health risks, including the big one that switchers trade one form of cancer for another. He includes many useful statistics to back up his claims, which are ignored by the fanatical anti-tobacco prohibitionists. While there is a slight increase of risk for oral cancer among smokeless users over the risk among non-tobacco users, the other problems associated with smokeless tobacco use are minimal, especially when compared with smoking tobacco use. The problem, you see, is with the nicotine delivery system. Combustion of tobacco causes 3,000 different chemicals to enter the lungs and all other organs and systems in the body. Not good. Radu points out that nicotine is what we are addicted to, NOT all the carcinogens and deadly toxins contained in tobacco smoke. Smokeless also doesn't produce harmful second-hand smoke, or discolor clothes and homes, or make burn-holes in beds and car seats, or cause house and forest fires, or stink up everything around it in general, like automobiles. He compares nicotine to caffeine, as both drugs have similar effects on the body, are both addictive, and neither is thought to directly contribute to any serious disease or health problem.
Rodu does not advocate starting any tobacco use if not currently using, and in fact would like to see its use eradicated in the next generation or two - he properly notes that the safest thing is to not use any tobacco at all, but nicotine is such a difficult addiction to shake. If other smoking-cessation programs don't work for you (which they often don't), then switching to smokeless tobacco is a viable and MUCH SAFER alternative. In fact, it is 98% SAFER THAN SMOKING. The life expectancy of a smokeless tobacco user is almost identical to that of a non-tobacco user, while smokers lose an average of 8-15 years of life, and those last years are often a horrible, miserable experience.
I have been off of cigs for almost 3 weeks now, using various U.S. Tobacco products, mostly the pouches in some yummy flavors. I have almost no desire to light up - in fact they stink to me now, and I can really smell a smoker when they get within range. The only time I want a smoke is when I wake up, or after a large meal, but that desire quickly goes away after I put in some smokeless tobacco. The only drawback so far is that it stains my teeth quite a bit, but I can breathe so much easier, and have so much more energy. The teeth-staining problem just requires more teeth maintenance, i.e. using mouthwash, a tooth pick, floss, etc. There is also a risk of gum or tooth loss, but my dentist has assured me that he would much rather see me using smokeless tobacco than smoking, and that I would just need to see him twice a year or so. As Radu points out, soon I will have a much lessened (almost non-existent in a few years) risk of heart attack, lung cancer, emphysema, heart disease, shortness-of-breath, COPD and all the other horrible things and cancers associated with long-term smoking.
I have recently talked to two older gentlemen that have used smokeless for 50 and 42 years, respectively, and no problems were noted, except one guy said he had some receding gum problems, but has not lost any teeth.
Smokeless tobacco is also much cheaper than cigarettes, as Rodu points out that smokers pay more money for less (but far more dangerous) tobacco.
Cigarette smoking kills about 420,000 people each year. It is the largest identifiable and PREVENTABLE cause of premature death in the United States. 20% of all deaths annually are because of smoking. If all of the 46 million American smokers would take Dr. Rodu's unconventional yet quite possibly effective advice, more lives would be saved, if not lengthened. The deaths from tobacco use would be down to about 6,000 per year!!! About 1.7 million smokers have made the switch, according to his stats, although the copy I have was printed in 1995.
If you are a smoker and have failed many times at quitting (as I had), this book is for you. It even illustrates (in pictures) how to properly use smokeless tobacco for 'rookies', and even shows women using the stuff. More 'spitless' products are available, to be even more discreet. If you have switched, and are meeting resistance with the same old tired (and inaccurate) mantras unjustifiably aimed at smokeless tobacco from friends, family members or health-care professionals, then this book is also for you. If you are tired of being a pariah in today's increasingly anti-smoking society, this book is for you. (Just try and find public places to light up these days - you can enjoy smokeless tobacco nearly everywhere, discreetly - and he points out the myth about swallowing tobacco juice being harmful is false, except for maybe an upset stomach.....)
Best of luck to all you current smokers out there - there is hope! I plan on using this as a stepping-stone to quit my personal tobacco use altogether.... But for the time being, I am not going crazy while I can now call myself, for the first time in 21 years, a non-smoker......

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This is a book of practical advice for people who already smoke. The basic message is that smokers are nicotine addicts who find it very hard to quit. The good news is that nicotine by itself is not really harmful (unless one takes a really big dose); it is the smoke in cigarettes that is deadly. From a smoker's viewpoint (and a Public Health perspective) the first priority should be to stay away from smoke. If you can later quite using nicotine, so much the better but getting the smoke out of your body is what is really important. Unfortunately, most of the "stop smoking" products such as the nicotine patch do not deliver enough nicotine to satisfy a smoker's craving. Hence most attempts at smoking fail. The solution is to find a way to get a good jolt of nicotine without the intake of smoke.

An important and practical message of this book is that
Smokers can dramatically decrease their risk of lung and oral cancers by switching to some of the new smokeless tobacco products. These products are not the old "chewing tobacco". They are mint-size bits of tobacco (I have found out that brand names are Oliver Twist, Exalt, and, in test market areas in Topeka KS and Youngstown OH, Revel.)that can be placed in the mouth. Once you are used to them, there is no need to spit etc. There is also a minty pill (Brand name Ariva ) that may be even easier to use.
The author is not a quack. He is a respected medical researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

I used this book back in 1970. It is the type of book that has some fun things to do each day for 14 days, so you have to have a sense of humor with it, and to tell others what you are doing. My brother-in-law also used it, and we both were able to stop smoking for good!

I smoked 3 packs a day of Kools for over half my life. I had NEVER quit because I couldn't. Not only was I addicted to nicotene, but also to the menthol. I could not even sleep all night without waking up for a few "puffs" at least once a night (sometimes more). My mother, also a very heavy smoker, quit smoking after reading this book and sent it to me. Half way through the book I wadded up the half a pack I was working on and never touched the two unopended packs on top the fridge except to throw them away. That was 25 years ago! After quitting I made it a point to order this book a half-dozen at a time until it went out of print. I used to give the book to anyone who asked me how I quit. I cannot tell you how many people to whom I gave this book have also quit, but it has many. My only regret is that for some unknown reason the book went out of print and no other publisher has picked it up. I'm ordering two used ones today to give to two friends and wanted to encourage others to buy this book so that they too can get free from this deadly habit!

This book is outstanding. After smoking for more than 10 years, 3+ packs a day of the long unfiltered kind, chewed leaf tobacco and dipped snuff, I had a serious tobacco addiction. I wanted to quit but I just couldn't get by without my tobacco!! A friend told me about this book. I had tried to quit so many times but I always went back to smoking. I agreed to read it but really didn't think it would help me change a thing. I soon found out why this book will help even the most serious smoker stop for good. The author reveals the secrets to success in an easy to understand style. You'll be amazed at what you find in the pages of this book. I figured a "how to" manual would be difficult to read. The book kept my attention from the minute I opened it. I read it in a couple of hours because I couldn't put it down. It's actually fun to read!! I read this book when a pack of smokes cost less than 50 cents. THANKS TO THIS BOOK I HAVEN'T HAD A CIGARETTE FOR MORE THAN 22 YEARS. If I were still smoking today, smokes alone would cost me about $5000 a year. This book is a must for anyone who has ever thought of quitting smoking. If you are even just thinking of quitting, check this book out. It's an easy and enjoyable read!!

I am a retired clinical psychologist and have helped many of my clients stop smoking over a period of several decades. Brean's little book is the best I know about. I used it myself over 40 years ago and have not smoked a cigarette since then. (I occasionally smoke a pipe or a cigar--maybe once or twice a year.) The book is based on sound psychological principles and emphasizes proper preparation before you actually quit. A unique feature is its day-by-day pages that you must not read until you quit and then only read each page on its assigned day. It's remarkable how much those little pages help!

I smoked 1-3 packs of cigarettes a day for about 30 years and had tried quitting a few times with zero success. This approach worked for me because it gave specific, day-by-day instructions and let me know what to expect. Brean also respected the power of the addiction and the difficulty of quitting, which helped me respect myself for undertaking the task. Brean was a smoker, so he knew why I loved the stuff beyond just the nicotine fix, and he helped me recognize all the other needs I was meeting with cigarettes. Quitting smoking with his method was no tougher to handle than a cold or a little poison ivy. I haven't had a cigarette since 1988! The book is dated, but it's only missing all the newly discovered reasons to quit.

I loved this book. There are so many life lessons that all hum into one beautiful book.

Fantastic Read! I found this to be a completely heartfelt realistic view of the life of a smoker trying to quit. The tongue-in-cheek humor actually comes across as a coping mechanism instead of snarky storytelling. It is easy to find yourself truly caring about this person and wanting them to succeed!

Wow! As a Respiratory Therapist, I work with people everday who are suffering the debilitating pulmonary effects of years of smoking. Most of my patients want to quit and just can't. From a scientific point of view I can understand how difficult it is to quit but I never thought about the emotional hold smoking has on people until I read "A Life in Smoke".
I was hoping that Julia's book would help me obtain some insight of how my patients feel about their smoking and their many failed attempts to quit. It did just that. I never realized the intimate friendship that people have with their cigarettes and what a important part of their survival those cigarettes are. I believe the book helped me to become more understanding, more empathetic and less judgemental. I'm going to recommend it to all of my co-workers.

For the first time, I have a glimpse into what it's like to be a smoker and why they do it. I've never understood the call of cigarettes--the few times I've tried one, I haven't felt a 'rush' or anything compelling me to have another, just a smokey icky taste in the mouth. Julia Hansen's tales of smoking and how she used the habit as a way to keep people and emotions at bay touched me deeply. There's a twist at the end that's both not surprising and disappointing, but you'll have to read it. An author who has found her voice, I hope she writes more.

As an avid never smoked non-smoker, my eyes were opened to the complexities of trying to break this one little habit. I have much more respect for my friends and family members that have accomplished this feat through the years. Hats off to Julia for not letting past defeats lessen her determination. This book is a thumbnail view into the highs and lows of her very interesting life. It is a great read for anyone interested in how other people handle everyday life.

Written by the founder of "Stop Smoking Recovery Programs" and former three-pack-a-day smoker David C. Jones, Yes! You Can Stop Smoking Even if You Don't Want To: Recover From Nicotine Addiction is now in an updated fourth edition. A groundbreaking guide, Yes! You Can Stop Smoking treats smoking as an addiction; dissects the self-talk and harmful false beliefs that prevent one from quitting; advice for avoiding self-sabotage; true-life stories of people who quit smoking; and much more. Affirmations for the first ninety days of quitting smoking, each with a blank half-page where the one quitting can write down his or her feelings, rounds out this invaluable, keen-minded and encouraging guide.

This book changed my life! I stopped smoking years ago using the principles and information in the third edition of this book and I was very happy to see that there is a new, fourth edition. In fact, this book has more information and support than any other book out there on the subject. The author, David C. Jones, holds your hand through each of the stages of quitting smoking and gives you the knowledge and skills to succeed. It was a great relief to finally read about smoking as a physical addiction - a medical condition - and not just a bad habit that can be overcome by willpower. I always felt like I was a bad person because I couldn't stop smoking. But this book made me look at myself, and at smoking, differently. The true-life success stories and the daily meditations included in this book also inspired me a great deal. This is the best book out there for stopping smoking. Do yourself a favor: buy this book!

This book is simple and to the point. Smoking is an addiction and thats what the book focuses on. After reading this book (in just a couple hours) I've quit smoking. It's a great feeling to have your eyes opened!

This has to be the best book out there for stopping smoking and staying stopped. David Jones addresses smoking as an addiction and treats the person, not the cigarette. He addresses the proper way to withdraw along with healthy coping skills to become and stay a non-smoker. I am thankful for this book.

I honestly had no plans to quit smoking when I found this book, I was looking for yoga books at the library... I thought the title was interesting and checked this out instead. I read the book and took action where it gave exercies and instructions, and by the time I got to the last page I stopped smoking! I also used an Anthony Robbins NLP technique with this book to aid in making smoking seem horribly disgusting (which it is.) I quit eleven months ago and have had ZERO cravings. One caveat, you will only get out of this book what you put into it!!

I've been looking for this book for a couple of years. Borrowed one from a friend and been wanting one since then. Accurately depicts the lives of Western North Carolina's mountain people as told through the eyes of one. Visited the actual area and impressed by their way of life.

I first became aware of Dellie Norton because of the movie "Songcatcher" (available on Amazon). A friend suggested I see it. I really liked the music, and something seemed really familiar about it. Then, I heard my aunt talking about it being based on real life people and I start doing some research.

Back in the early part of the 20th century, an English music researcher and lecturer named Cecil Sharp traveled to the U.S. to track down old songs. He got more songs in Madison county than any other place in the country. Songcatcher is loosely based on those events. It was while I was researching that I happened across some articles about Rob Amberg, and I went looking for his book.

When I first ran across the Sodom Laurel Album, I ended up buying copies for all my close family members and friends. Like the other 2 reviewers, Debra and David, I am related to most of the people in the book and on the CD. In fact, my own father, Warren, was born right down the road from Dellie's house.

After reading their words and studying the pictures, I have an even greater respect for my kin than before, and I can't help but feel that we've really lost something important from our lives. Not just my family, but our entire nation.

If you want a really good look at the way life was for most of the nation less than a hundred years ago, the stark images of Rob Amberg have really captured it.

For even more detail about mountain life, you may want to read a couple of books by Sheila Kay Adams (she is in Sodom Laurel Album): Come Go With Me and My Old True Love. They are based on life in and around Sodom (Revere) and are available from Amazon.

Sheila also carries on Dellie's legacy; she is a traditional ballad singer (she was taught by Dellie Norton) and sells CDs on her web site, and performs in festivals around the country. Details on the web since Amazon doesn't seem to carry her CDs.

I received this book as a Christmas gift and have loved every page. The stories and the photographs are great. I believe that anyone who is fascinated with mountain living as I am will love this book.

I'm David Norton Junior is my uncle. This is a great book if your intrested in the way we live in the mountains you should get this book full of great photos of my uncle and aunt Dellie and one great picture of my grandpa Willard.

It's a great handbook on how to organize a campaign to fight unscrupulous big tobacco, using the California experience as the training manual. So, it's a mixture of history and object lesson, written by someone who know how to teach. A different kind of book from the usual history of tobacco, and there's nothing else like it. Highly recommended.

I could hardly put this book down. The battle being fought is truly a life and death matter, alliances and strategies evolve on both sides, and the Tobacco Industry uses their multi-million war chests to mislead the public over and over and over again. Even when you think you can relax after a victory by the anti-tobacco forces, in the next chapter the Tobacco Industry is lurking behind yet another door with a butcher's cleaver, which ends up being wielded by tobacco funded politicians and the California Medical Association to cut tobacco education funds and to weaken the anti-tobacco media campaign. Really this book is about much more than California and its battle with the tobacco industry. It is the best book I've ever read about why we need campaign finance reform and effective sunshine laws. You are shown all the nitty-gritty details, the back room deals, the closed-door bargaining. You'll emerge from this book well-prepared to detect lies in future wars, and to read between-the-lines in daily newspaper coverage.

The tobacco industry is one of the most evil industries allowed to operate in America. From child labor to seductive advertising to distribution of a deadly product and ending in mountains of money in political bribes, The US Tobacco Industry has just about every imaginable negative attribute of corporate America, all rolled into one, neat package.

Tobacco War puts a face on a faceless industry, and it is not a very pretty face. From exposing the hidden truths of the seductive advertising schemes and the green blood that flows through the veins of America's political system in every level, Tobacco War doesn't simply archive news stories, lawsuits and events, but connects the dots and presents the reader with a realistic picture of how big tobacco operates.

Likewise, tomorrows activist are reading this book today to gain the edge in a climate of misinformation. Provides grass-roots information for activists to develop and deploy campaigns.

Think your cigarette maker cares about you? They have you hooked, and you are the least of their worries. They are working to reel the next generation of smokers in for the kill.

And so far, the catch is coming in... wallet and all.

"The Tobacco War" is part social and political history, part "how-to" manual. Not a dry catalogue of events, but written with a sense of the human drama surrounding each twist and turn of the tale. Co-author Stan Glantz, involved so deeply in the movement, offers the most incisive, comprehensive, and definitive perspective on the California anti-tobacco effort available. I was astounded to read of the intrigue and jaw-dropping audacity of the Tobacco Industry and its allies in the State government on one hand, and the incredible courage and tenacity of those fighting it in the most aggressive and effective way in history on the other. The growth in political savvy and will of the American Lung Association, the American Heart Association, and the American Cancer Society is catalogued in detail, as are the machinations of the State legislature, the governor's office, and lobbyists and pressure groups when money comes up for grabs. This is an outstanding text for the social or political scientist, activists of any type, and anyone in state local politics. It is a remarkable and practical instruction manual for anyone in tobacco use prevention today. These heroes have not left the field. Their enemy, the Tobacco Industry, is immortal.

I tried the nicotine gum, I tried the patch, and I tried support groups. Nothing seemed to work. I worked this program, and I am now nicotine free for over three years. THIS BOOK SAVED MY LIFE! I am also a social worker and have worked in the field of addictions treatment for 10 years. Not only did this program work for me, but it makes sense from a scientific perspective. If you are looking for a strong self-help workbook to help you break free from nicotine addiction, I strongly recommend this book.

I have been free from nicotine addiction for 12 years thanks to Paul Lagergren's "Tiger Process". After trying other methods to quit smoking, and failing, I was convinced that I did not have enough willpower. Other people could do it but not me. This process empowered me to take back control of my body and my life. I followed the instructions, step by step, and freed myself forever. No willpower required. Just a commitment to work the process. Thanks Paul!

After trying everything else, from mini computers to pills and patches and books, Paul Lagergren's Tiger process helped me beat a powerful nicotine addiction. The secret is, I think, the way this program cuts all the important steps into tiny and manageable actions so that all a person has to do is concentrate on that day's step, one day at a time, one step at a time and then you are there and you are successful and you are saying "Jeez, that wasn't so hard!" You learn how to quit smoking while you're still smoking and then you set a date and when it comes you are prepared and you have all the tools you will need.

This book uses oral history, company, and union archives to tell a riveting story about an attempt by poor (mostly black) workers to build a union against heavy odds. This book tells us so much about twentieth century American history, and it does it with great skill. All the great themes of labor's downfall are here. The inability to organize the South. The racism and anti-communism of high union officials. The failure of Operation Dixie. The vicious backlash of employers and the Democratic party against the movement for working class power. This book is a great example of micro history used to illuminate important national trends. I cannot recommend a book more highly.

This is a terrific book--an important history that brings together a story of race, labor unions, economic change, politics, and culture, but never loses sight of the actual people involved. Very well written--not dry and academic like some history, but also very rich analytically. Buy it and read it!

In this wonderful book, African American tobacco workers tell their own story of civil rights struggle and union organizing. It is long, but so was the struggle, and I couldn't put it down. Oral interviews give us the black workers' own accounts, sending, for once, the white supremacists to the back of the bus.
Read it. You will find a South you never thought you would find.

If you read only one book this year, make sure it's Louise Shiver's lovely little book. Yes, it's out of print, but worth the effort to hunt for. There is a treasure awaiting whoever goes to the trouble. I heard Ms. Shivers read an excerpt from this book when it first came out, and the memory still brings up a sense of incredulity at the beauty of the language she used. I consider it among the top 3 favorite books I've ever read. Get it! Read it! Then read it again. . . . and again. . .!

Years ago at a writers' conference in South Georgia, I met Ms. Shivers. She read an excerpt from her tiny novel and I was hooked. Now I read it often, especially when I've had to be around people who butcher the english language. Shiver's beautiful prose is like a soothing salve. Ex: "There were trees along the main street, real tall elms as old and lofty as the Confederate monument on top of the mound in Elmwood Cemetery. In the summers any little stir from the branches fanned the cured tobacco smell from the warehouses and sealed it over the center of town like a jar lid." Now, who in their right mind, after reading those words, wouldn't want to catch the next bus to North Carolina just to find such a place? Shivers writes like she's sitting in a porch swing, talking. Don't have time for a long book? Pick up a copy of this little jewel. Its rich, southern voice will lure you in and you won't want it to end!

This obscure novel is one of the best books I've ever read (and I've read many, all genres). In a deceptively simple story of an illicit love in tobacco country, the author deals with the deepest mysteries of life, death, and redemption. I wish Louise Shivers were more prolific, and so will you after you read this slender but astonishing book.

If you want an easy-to-read short story that really helps children understand the dangers of smoking, then Jimmy Boogie Learns About Smoking (second edition) is for you. Addiction can be a very difficult concept for children to grasp. This story is so simply written kids will quickly comprehend the message. And the book's colorful illustrations really reinforce the message by holding their attention. I would highly recommend it to any parent or teacher who wants to educate their little ones about an addiction to smoking.

An excellent book for families of young children.
Jimmie Boogie and the kids invite you onto the playground for fun while teaching about the dangers of smoking and addiction. The messages age given through a multicultural group of friends with happy freckled faces, sibling support and possitive peer pressure to not smoke. The delightful coloring book images keep the attention of young readers. Children learn possitive messages about staying healthy,and ways people can get help to stop smoking. A friendly book,an important message written in a sensitive, caring way.

This is a very informative and entertaing lesson for a young person. This short book is well written and easy to understand. The illustrations are colorful and story-book-like in character, while retaining the goal of the important message about smoking. A must read for all young children in groups with teachers in school or at home with their parents.