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This book offers a comprehensive introduction to historic and contemporary efforts to regulate tobacco and reduce the staggering number of people who die from using tobacco products. With calls for greater government regulation of tobacco culminating in the historic June 2009 passage of federal antismoking legislation, Tobacco could not be more timely. It is the most authoritative and accessible volume available on the evolution of tobacco consumption as well as efforts to protect consumers from its dangers. Tobacco focuses on five key issues: tobacco excise taxation and health policy; the often misleading advertising of cigarettes and "low tar/nicotine" alternatives; the role of the Food and Drug Administration in regulating tobacco; education and prevention efforts aimed at children and teens; and environmental tobacco health risks, including second hand smoke. It is an eye-opening introduction to the entire history of efforts to regulate tobacco—from its beginnings in the Progressive Era of the early 20th century to recent efforts to uncover suppressed medical reports, ban smoking ads, and get smoking out of the movies.

This plainspoken, research-based guide offers you practical, direct advice on the important contributions primary care clinicians can make to the well-being of every patient, in every encounter. Features: * Provides guidance on behavioral issues for primary care clinicians * Best available evidence-based, solutions-oriented guide to the patient issues you face daily * Clear answers on families with parenting and developmental issues, and children and adolescents with behavioral problems * Ways to ease patients reactions to illness and assist in changing behaviors that prolong, perpetuate, or exacerbate their distress * Effective ways to help patients modify behaviors that increase their risk for illness and disease * Useful, current answers on complex issues such as sexual problems and eating disorders * Identifying and treating cases of abuse and violence * Strategies for caring for patients you find difficult, overcoming patient resistance, and encouraging therapeutic cooperation * Realistic guidelines on helping with end-of-life, loss, and grief issues * Evidence-based help with explicit psychological symptoms and syndromes, including anxiety, panic, post-traumatic stress disorder, and somatoform symptoms * What every clinician needs to know about managing depression as a chronic disease * Tips that can make the partnership between you and your patients more comfortable and easy every day Other titles in the 20 Common Problems series include Dermatology, End of Life, Ethics, Pediatrics, Preventive Health, Primary Care, Surgery, Urology, and Women's Health Care.