Introduction: Liberal States, Public Health, and the Tobacco Question

1. Children and Bystanders First: The Ethics and Politics of Tobacco Control in the United States
Ronald Bayer and James Colgrove

2. The Limits of Tolerance: Cigarettes, Politics, and Society in Japan
Eric A. Feldman

3. Rights and Public Health in the Balance: Tobacco Control in Canada
Christopher P. Manfredi and Antonia Maioni

4. The Politics of Tobacco Control in Australia: International Template?
John Ballard

5. Militants, Manufacturers, and Governments: Postwar Smoking Policy in the United Kingdom
Virginia Berridge

6. Liberté, Egalité, Fumée: Smoking and Tobacco Control in France
Constance A. Nathanson

7. Between Paternalism and Voluntarism: Tobacco Consumption and Tobacco Control in Germany
Günter Frankenberg

8. Holy Smoke, No More? Tobacco Control in Denmark
Erik Albaek

9. Tobacco-Control Policy in the European Union: The Legal, Ethical, and Policy Debates
Anna Gilmore and Martin McKee

10. Difference and Diffusion: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Rise of Anti-tobacco Policies
Allan M. Brandt

11. Tobacco Control in Comparative Perspective: Eight Nations in Search of an Explanation
Theodore Marmor and Evan S. Lieberman

Conclusion: Cigarettes, Science, and Public Health

Notes

Contributors

Index

Eric A. Feldman is Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Ronald Bayer is Professor at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University.