Smoking Privileges: Psychiatry, The Mentally Ill, And The Tobacco Industry In America (Critical Issues In Health And Medicine) - 9780813563961

The mentally ill may represent as much as half of the smokers in America. In a groundbreaking look at this little-known public health problem, Smoking Privileges offers an insightful historical account of the intersection of smoking and mental illness, placing this issue in the context of changes in psychiatry, in the tobacco and pharmaceutical industries, and in the experience of mental illness over the last century.

• | Author: Laura D. Hirshbein
• | Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 30, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 228 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0813563968
• | ISBN-13: 9780813563961