Smoke Damage: Voices from the Front Lines of America’s Tobacco Wars
Autor Michael Schwalbeen Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 apr 2011
Tobacco use causes over 440,000 premature deaths every year in the United States, or about 20 percent of all annual mortality in the nation. Such statistics remind us of the enormity of the problem, yet offer no insight into how tobacco-related disease is experienced by individuals and their families.
Smoke Damage fills this gap by putting a human face on America’s most profitable and most preventable epidemic. Through interviews and photographs, sociologist Michael Schwalbe takes readers beyond the usual statistics and shows the real people—disease survivors, “tobacco widows,” educators, activists, legislators, lawyers, researchers, and farmers—on the front lines of America’s ongoing tobacco wars. The result is a poignant study of how tobacco-related disease is experienced not only by its victims but also by those who are dedicated to fighting it.
In his introductory essay, Schwalbe examines the scope of the tobacco problem, discusses its economic roots, and writes of his own experience of tobacco’s costs. In his afterword, he explores patterns in the lives of disease survivors, offers policy recommendations, and invites readers to take action. Smoke Damage is for anyone whose life has been touched by tobacco-related disease and who wants to understand why the epidemic persists and what can be done to end it.
Smoke Damage fills this gap by putting a human face on America’s most profitable and most preventable epidemic. Through interviews and photographs, sociologist Michael Schwalbe takes readers beyond the usual statistics and shows the real people—disease survivors, “tobacco widows,” educators, activists, legislators, lawyers, researchers, and farmers—on the front lines of America’s ongoing tobacco wars. The result is a poignant study of how tobacco-related disease is experienced not only by its victims but also by those who are dedicated to fighting it.
In his introductory essay, Schwalbe examines the scope of the tobacco problem, discusses its economic roots, and writes of his own experience of tobacco’s costs. In his afterword, he explores patterns in the lives of disease survivors, offers policy recommendations, and invites readers to take action. Smoke Damage is for anyone whose life has been touched by tobacco-related disease and who wants to understand why the epidemic persists and what can be done to end it.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780981562087
ISBN-10: 0981562086
Pagini: 128
Ilustrații: 45 b-w duotones
Dimensiuni: 254 x 254 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: BORDERLAND BOOKS
Colecția Borderland Books
ISBN-10: 0981562086
Pagini: 128
Ilustrații: 45 b-w duotones
Dimensiuni: 254 x 254 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: BORDERLAND BOOKS
Colecția Borderland Books
Recenzii
“Schwalbe’s book is original, important, moving, and strangely beautiful. His masterful black-and-white portraits are keen sociological observations of people in their natural environments. Smoke Damage will be a lasting statement about the complex world of people who have experienced and resisted the collateral damage caused by tobacco.”—Doug Harper, author of Good Company and Working Knowledge
“These moving portraits provide powerful and intimate evidence of the tragic harms of smoking. Michael Schwalbe captures in both photographs and personal testimony the human costs of the tobacco pandemic, as well as the courageous men and women fighting the good fight in the tobacco wars.”—Allan Brandt, Harvard University, author of The Cigarette Century
“With a combination of haunting photographs and spare prose, Michael Schwalbe takes us inside the human consequences of the tobacco epidemic. Through the haze and smoke, we see the whole awful story clearly—heroes, villains and victims. Smoke Damage has a visceral power you won't soon forget.”—Jonathan Alter, author of The Promise: President Obama, Year One
“I have always been amazed at how hard it is to capture the public's attention about the number one cause of death in our country. To do this, you need more than vague statistics. You have to bring to mind real people—someone's mom, dad, brother, or sister. That's what Michael Schwalbe does in Smoke Damage. This book will make a difference in our fight to save lives.”—–Mike Moore, former Mississippi attorney general, leader in the states’ efforts against the tobacco industry
“Michael Schwalbe has made a handsome and fascinating book out of the ugly subject of tobacco smoking. The photographs and testimony of victims of tobacco, and of people who have spent the better part of their lives fighting the economic and political interests that keep tobacco so easily available, tell an important story that could not be told any other way.”—Howard S. Becker, author of Outsiders
“Smoke Damage is elegant and simple, presenting black-and-white pictures and diverse stories of the atrocities our government has allowed to occur for decades, despite overwhelming and irrefutable scientific information about the health hazards of tobacco use. The book is a testament to those who have suffered and those who have valiantly fought the tobacco wars.”—Dr. Richard Carmona, University of Arizona, 17th Surgeon General of the United States
“Smoke Damage is an eloquent, conclusive indictment of America's most lethal capitalists. Wherever logic or decency prevailed, Michael Schwalbe's airtight case would be the final nail in Big Tobacco's coffin. It's a rare pleasure to praise a book so free of moral ambiguity, where absolute evil wears no disguise. How could it be, Schwalbe asks, that for so long we allowed millions to die for the profit of a few?”—Hal Crowther, author of Unarmed But Dangerous
“Of all the many treatises, histories, and polemics about the curse of tobacco, this work will stay long with both our hearts and minds.”—Michael Pertschuk, former Federal Trade Commission chair, author of Smoke in Their Eyes
Notă biografică
Michael Schwalbe is professor of sociology at North Carolina State University. He is author of Unlocking the Iron Cage: The Men’s Movement, Gender Politics, and American Culture, The Sociologically Examined Life, and Rigging the Game: How Inequality Is Reproduced in Everyday Life.
Cuprins
Introduction
Portraits and Interviews
Afterword
Resources
Acknowledgements
Portraits and Interviews
Afterword
Resources
Acknowledgements
Descriere
Through interviews and photographs, sociologist Michael Schwalbe takes readers beyond the usual statistics and shows the real people—disease survivors, “tobacco widows,” educators, activists, legislators, lawyers, researchers, and farmers—on the front lines of America’s ongoing tobacco wars.