ISIL Freedom Network: United States > Books > Alcohol and Tobacco
- For Your Own Good: The Anti-Smoking Crusade and the Tyranny of Public Health
Source: Laissez Faire Books
Author: Jacob Sullum
Country: United States
- Milton Friedman calls this book "A highly readable yet encyclopedic account of anti-tobacco activism from the blast by James I in 1604 to the latest outpouring by Kessler and Koop." Hardcover, 330p., $24.95 from Laissez Faire Books. (1998) Also see http://reason.com/owngood.html
- Smoking: Who Has the Right?
Source: Laissez Faire Books/Prometheus
Author: Jeffrey Schaler and Magda E. Schaler (Eds.)
Country: United States
- Contributors including Thomas Szasz, Walter Williams, Douglas Den Uyl and Anthony Flew examine the modern prohibition movement and its striking similarities to other historical failures of its type. Pub. 1998, paperback, 357 pp., LFB price $17.95)
- Cigarettes: What The Warning Label Doesn't Tell You
Source: American Council on Science and Health
Country: United States
- "ACSH's new book features commentaries by 20 medical specialists (gynecology, oncology, surgery, cardiology, psychiatry and more) on the medical effects of cigarette smoking in specific systems of the human body." (1/00)
- A Comparison of the Health Effects of Alcohol Consumption and Tobacco Use in America
Source: ACSH
Author: Cheryl K. Olson, Lawrence Kutner, and ACSH staff
Country: United States
- Booklet reviewing the patterns of alcohol and tobacco use in the United States, and dose-related health benefits and risks. Available free as PDF file, or $5 paperback.
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