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Author Pennock, Pamela E.

Title Advertising sin and sickness : the politics of alcohol and tobacco marketing, 1950-1990 / Pamela E. Pennock.

Imprint DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, c2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  659.196631 P384a 2007    ---  Available
Description viii, 282 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series Drugs and alcohol
Drugs and alcohol (Dekalb, Ill.)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-275) and index.
Contents Introduction. Health, morality, and free speech -- Pt. 1. The failed fight to ban alcohol advertising, 1947-1958 -- 1. Temperance and mass society -- 2. The industries' regulatory response -- 3. Legislative battles : politics and rhetoric -- Pt. 2. The battle to regulate cigarette marketing, 1960s -- 4. Emergence of the postwar antismoking movement -- 5. The warning label debate -- 6. The next push : restricting advertising -- Pt. 3. The new temperance movement and alcohol marketing restrictions, 1970s and 1980s -- 7. The political, legal, and scientific context of regulation -- 8. Policy contests : warning labels and advertising controls -- Conclusion. The elusive quest for restraints.
Subject Advertising -- Alcoholic beverages -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Advertising -- Cigarettes -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Corporate speech -- United States.
ISBN 0875803687 (clothbound : alk. paper)
9780875803685 (clothbound : alk. paper)
Standard No. YDXCP 2509432

 
    
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