An informative look at smoking covers the various issues surrounding the tobacco industry today, presents regulations on tobacco, and discusses the effects of smoking and its overall addictive qualities.

Examines laws, legal opinions, statistics, and studies that address smoking bans, lawsuits against tobacco companies, and restriction on advertising for tobacco products. (view table of contents)

This title looks at the ways in which the American tobacco industry still manages to promote cigarettes and smoking despite the ban on television advertising and sports sponsorship. The author looks at how the industry uses smoking's presence on television, film and other media to subtly get its message across.