Tobacco War
Subtitle: Inside the California Battles
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: March 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 486
ISBN-13: 9780520222861
Subjects: Political activism; Public health & preventive medicine; Tobacco industry; Business & Economics; c 1970 to c 1980; c 1980 to c 1990; c 1990 to c 2000; Law; Government & Business; Tobacco; Technology; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; California; Law and legislation; Government - State & Provincial; Government - U.S. Government; Public Affairs & Administration; History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies); Agriculture - General; Political aspects
First sentence: New Year's Day 1998 was crisp and clear along the coast just north of San Francisco.
Description: Charting the dramatic and complex history of tobacco politics in California over the last 25 years of the 20th century, this text begins with the activities of a small band of activists who, in the 1970s, put forward the radical notion that people should not have to breathe second-hand tobacco smoke. Stanton Glantz and Edith Balbach follow the movement through the 1980s, when activists created hundreds of city and county ordinances by working through their local officials, to the present - when tobacco is a highly visible issue in American politics and smoke-free restaurants and bars are a reality throughout the state. The authors show how these accomplishments rest on the groundwork laid over the last two decades of the 20th century by tobacco control activists who have worked across the US to change how people view the tobacco industry and its behaviour.