Books

Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, 1621. Reprint, New York: Tudor, 1948. A collection of insights and information about physical and psychological health in the seventeenth century.

Philip J. Hilts, Smokescreen: The Truth Behind the Tobacco Industry Cover-Up. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1996. This book is an exposé of the tobacco industry's deceptive practices. It includes information about illegal tobacco marketing to youth, legal skirmishes, and government interventions (or lack thereof).

Institute of Medicine, Growing Up Tobacco Free: Preventing Nicotine Addiction in Children and Youths. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1994. This fascinating 250-page report is the culmination of an eighteen-month study commissioned to examine the prevention of nicotine dependence among children and young people.

Richard Kluger, Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. This comprehensive Pulitzer prize-winning book looks at the history of...