Tobacco Industry and Smoking (Library in a Book)

Tobacco Industry and Smoking (Library in a Book)

Posted By: Smirk | Date: 02 Mar 2008 00:30 | Comments: 1

Tobacco Industry and Smoking
Facts on File | 2004-03 | ISBN: 0816054509 | 320 pages | PDF | 1,4 MB

The U.S. Surgeon General views smoking as the nation's number one public health problem, and cigarette smoking is the single largest preventable cause of premature death in the United States today. Estimates of the number of yearly deaths from smoking-related causes exceed 400,000 (about one-sixth of all deaths), and yet 23 percent of the population in 2000 smoked. Despite falling cigarette use in past decades, young people today continue to adopt the habit at about the same rate as they did 10 years ago.

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Tobacco in History and Culture: An Encyclopedia

Tobacco in History and Culture: An Encyclopedia

Posted By: Smirk | Date: 19 Mar 2008 15:47 | Comments: 2

Tobacco in History and Culture
Thomson Gale | 2005-01 | ISBN:0684314533 | 700 pages | PDF | 16,5 MB

Tobacco in History and Culture explores how tobacco became one of the most important commodities in the history of world trade and the source of one of the biggest public health concerns in modern history. Originally used by Native Americans for medicinal, religious and social purposes, tobacco quickly became the biggest export from the American colonies.

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