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Author:   Geraint Howells ,  Professor Geraint Howells
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.748kg
ISBN:  

9780754645702

ISBN 10:   0754645703
Pages:   334
Publication Date:   10 October 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Preface; Tobacco - a challenge to the law; Tobacco litigation; Product liability in the US - from asbestos to riches?; Product liability beyond the US; Regulatory responses to tobacco and legal challenges; Regulating tobacco; The future challenges for tobacco control; Index.

Reviews

"A Yankee Book Peddler UK Core Title for 2011 'Geraint Howells has written a definitive account of the complex legal, moral, and public health challenges facing the tobacco industry over the past 50 years. His multi-disciplinary, detailed, and nuanced work covers a wide spectrum of issues, all addressed with the unbiased rigor of academic scholarship yet imminently accessible to a wider audience. Essential reading for anyone interested in a comprehensive analysis of one of the most vexing debates of our time.' James Nehf, Indiana University, USA '""The"" reference book for any academic research and any political view relating to tobacco. This book is more than a challenge: it does raise, in a refreshing manner, the right questions and provides, in an elegant way, the very possible answers.' Ludovic Bernardeau, European and Comparative Law Research Center (CEJEC), France 'This book offers a balanced account of the legal, moral and public health challenges facing governmental efforts aimed at curbing tobacco consumption. Yet its merits go well beyond that of offering an objective examination and reconstruction of such a complex area of law and policy. Howells’s analysis is also refreshing, innovative and brave enough to challenge some of the main tenets of the health community’s dominant thinking... The Tobacco Challenge is a welcome contribution to today’s limited, independent academic literature on tobacco regulation. Professor Howells has succeeded in the ’mission impossible’ task of providing a nuanced account of the past, present and future of tobacco control. His is an invigorating book for all those scholars genuinely interested in tobacco regulation research but who are increasingly afraid to be either associated with the tobacco industry or of being mistaken for an anti-tobacco activist. Indeed, Professor Howells’s account shows that it is possible - despite the highly polarised debate surrounding tobacco regulation - to conduct unbiased and rig"

A Yankee Book Peddler UK Core Title for 2011 'Geraint Howells has written a definitive account of the complex legal, moral, and public health challenges facing the tobacco industry over the past 50 years. His multi-disciplinary, detailed, and nuanced work covers a wide spectrum of issues, all addressed with the unbiased rigor of academic scholarship yet imminently accessible to a wider audience. Essential reading for anyone interested in a comprehensive analysis of one of the most vexing debates of our time.' James Nehf, Indiana University, USA ' The reference book for any academic research and any political view relating to tobacco. This book is more than a challenge: it does raise, in a refreshing manner, the right questions and provides, in an elegant way, the very possible answers.' Ludovic Bernardeau, European and Comparative Law Research Center (CEJEC), France 'This book offers a balanced account of the legal, moral and public health challenges facing governmental efforts aimed at curbing tobacco consumption. Yet its merits go well beyond that of offering an objective examination and reconstruction of such a complex area of law and policy. Howells's analysis is also refreshing, innovative and brave enough to challenge some of the main tenets of the health community's dominant thinking... The Tobacco Challenge is a welcome contribution to today's limited, independent academic literature on tobacco regulation. Professor Howells has succeeded in the 'mission impossible' task of providing a nuanced account of the past, present and future of tobacco control. His is an invigorating book for all those scholars genuinely interested in tobacco regulation research but who are increasingly afraid to be either associated with the tobacco industry or of being mistaken for an anti-tobacco activist. Indeed, Professor Howells's account shows that it is possible - despite the highly polarised debate surrounding tobacco regulation - to conduct unbiased and rigorous academic scholarship that might genuinely advance the fading intellectual debate about tobacco regulation.' Common Market Law Review 'The Tobacco Challenge successfully presents arguments on the tobacco regulation debate from both the industry and health advocate viewpoints. The book gives a thorough account of the history of the tobacco industry and provides academic research and conclusions regarding tobacco policies that are well written, thoroughly researched and highly informative.' International Trade and Business Law Review '...reaches far beyond the subject matter of tobacco, in particular with regard to the techniques used in the EU and the USA to handle deep social conflicts.' Journal of Consumer Policy

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Geraint Howells is from the University of Manchester, UK.

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