Tobacco Control Policy: Public Health/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Anthology

Although tobacco-policy research dates back to the 1970s, the emergence of a field of tobacco-policy research, nurtured by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, evolved primarily over the past fifteen years. This volume, the third in the acclaimed Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Series on Health Policy, presents some of the most influential research that has defined the field and has contributed to policy change.

Required reading for anyone wishing to be conversant with tobacco control policy, the book is edited by Kenneth E. Warner--dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan and a leading tobacco policy researcher--who leads with an overview of the field. Warner's overview is supported by reprints of some of the field's most significant articles, written by leading scholars and practitioners.

The topics discussed are:

• Taxation and Price
• Clean Indoor Air Laws
• Advertising, Ad Bans, and Counteradvertising
• Possession, Use, and Purchase (PUP) Laws and Sales to Minors
• Cessation Policy
• Comprehensive State Laws

The book concludes with analyses of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's work to reduce smoking.