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A Life in Smoke
Free Press 2006; US$ 20.95"I accepted the certainty of my untimely death with gallows humor and a calculator. I'd read somewhere that each cigarette you smoke knocks seven minutes off your time on the planet. To amuse myself, I did the math: 153,000 cigarettes = two years of my life, up in smoke." Julia Hansen first lit up at nineteen. Twenty years later, she was editing... more...
Pot Politics
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 52.99Focuses on ethical, religious, economic, psychological, and political arguments for cannabis policies that range from prohibition, to supervised medical use, to unrestricted legalisation. This work includes chapters that provide perspectives on issues that may contribute to cost/benefit analyses or moral arguments. more...
Mortality amongst Illicit Drug Users
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 46.00The rate of illicit drug use worldwide has risen dramatically, and with it the number of deaths reported among drug-using populations. In this book, Shane Darke and his team provide the first full, synthetic review of the epidemiology, causes, prevalence, interventions, demography, and associated risk factors of illicit-drug-related mortality. more...
At What Cost?
International Development Research Centre 2006; US$ 20.00This publication reviews and synthesizes the literature on tobacco-related health economic evaluation, with a focus on developing countries. IDRC?s Research for International Tobacco Contract (RITC) produced the report in an attempt to lay the groundwork for future comparative and conclusive research in the field of tobacco-related economic evaluation. ... more...
Qualitative Research for Tobacco Control
International Development Research Centre 2006; US$ 40.00This manual is designed to encourage users from around the world to engage in tobacco control research using qualitative methods and tools. The objective is to expand the body of knowledge that can influence tobacco control policies and programs. In addition, the manual is intended to serve consumers of qualitative research by helping them critically... more...
Dangerous Harvest
Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 49.99Presenting an overview of peoples' relations with drugs, this book presents case studies from various cultural landscapes that are involved in drug plant production, trade, and use, and examines historical uses of illicit plant substances. It also shows the deep historical, cultural, and economic ties between farmer and crop. more...
Tobacco
ABC-CLIO 2003; US$ 45.00Tobacco addresses the many interrelated controversies surrounding the historical and current use of tobacco and presents a clear, objective, and thorough treatment of this contentious public health and legal issue. Is there a more prominent issue being battled out in the courtrooms of America today than that over the effects of tobacco? Multibillion... more...
The Tobacco Atlas
World Health Organization 2002; US$ 27.00The Tobacco Atlas is intended for anyone concerned with personal or political health, governance, politics, economics, big business, corporate behaviour, smuggling, tax, religion, internet, allocation of resources, human development and the future. It will be useful for UN agencies, governments and politicians, health officials, the media, researchers,... more...
Drugs
McGraw-Hill Education 2007; US$ 165.00Drugs: Policy and Politics is an accessible introduction to the links between drugs and social policy. Assessing current and recent policies and political responses, it considers the ways in which drugs policy is formulated and implemented in the UK and Europe. The book examines the dynamic context of drug policy through discussions of broader policy... more...









