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A diverse group of writers and scholars follow the lead of noted folklorist Barre Toelken and consider, from the inside, the ways in which varied cultures in the American West understand and express their relations to the world around them. As Barre Toelken puts it in The Dynamics of Folklore, ""'Worldview' refers to the manner in which a culture sees and expresses its relation to the world around it."" In Worldviews and the American West, seventeen notable authors and scholars, employing diverse approaches and styles, apply Toelken's ideas about worldview to the American West.

Minorities --- Ethnophilosophy --- Folklore --- Group identity --- Social life and customs. --- West (U.S.) --- Ethnic relations. --- Civilization. --- In literature. --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Folk philosophy --- Indigenous peoples --- Philosophy, Primitive --- Primitive philosophy --- Ethnic minorities --- Foreign population --- Minority groups --- Philosophy --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Cognition and culture --- Ethnology --- Persons --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Discrimination --- Ethnic relations --- Majorities --- Plebiscite --- Race relations --- Segregation

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Tobacco War charts the dramatic and complex history of tobacco politics in California over the past quarter century. Beginning with the activities of a small band of activists who, in the 1970's, put forward the radical notion that people should not have to breathe second-hand tobacco smoke, Stanton Glantz and Edith Balbach follow the movement through the 1980's, when activists created hundreds of city and county ordinances by working through their local officials, to the present--when tobacco is a highly visible issue in American politics and smoke-free restaurants and bars are a reality throughout the state. The authors show how these accomplishments rest on the groundwork laid over the past two decades by tobacco control activists who have worked across the U.S. to change how people view the tobacco industry and its behavior. Tobacco War is accessibly written, balanced, and meticulously researched. The California experience provides a graphic demonstration of the successes and failures of both the tobacco industry and public health forces. It shows how public health advocates slowly learned to control the terms of the debate and how they discovered that simply establishing tobacco control programs was not enough, that constant vigilance was necessary to protect programs from a hostile legislature and governor. In the end, the California experience proves that it is possible to dramatically change how people think about tobacco and the tobacco industry and to rapidly reduce tobacco consumption. But California's experience also demonstrates that it is possible to run such programs successfully only as long as the public health community exerts power effectively. With legal settlements bringing big dollars to tobacco control programs in every state, this book is must reading for anyone interested in battling and beating the tobacco industry.

Tobacco -- Law and legislation -- California. --- Tobacco industry -- Political aspects -- California. --- Tobacco industry. --- Government Regulation --- Smoking --- Tobacco Use Disorder --- Smoking Cessation --- Tobacco Industry --- Tobacco --- Industry --- Social Control, Formal --- Substance-Related Disorders --- Habits --- Tobacco Use Cessation --- Solanaceae --- Behavior --- Technology, Industry, and Agriculture --- Angiosperms --- Sociology --- Diseases --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Mental Disorders --- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms --- Embryophyta --- Health Care --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Technology, Industry, Agriculture --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Streptophyta --- Viridiplantae --- Plants --- Eukaryota --- Organisms --- State Law - except N.Y. --- Law - U.S. --- Law, Politics & Government --- Tobacco industry --- Law and legislation --- Political aspects --- Tobacco manufacture and trade --- Tobacco products industry --- Mahorka --- Makhorka --- Nicotiana tabacum --- Plant products industry --- Nicotiana --- academic. --- california. --- court cases. --- cultural studies. --- culture. --- dare program. --- drugs. --- health and wellness. --- health education. --- law and order. --- lawsuits. --- legal issues. --- legislature. --- lung health. --- media. --- non smokers. --- plants. --- political. --- politics. --- proposition 99. --- research. --- respiratory health. --- san francisco. --- scholarly. --- smokers. --- smoking. --- tobacco control. --- tobacco industry. --- tobacco. --- war on drugs. --- west coast. --- western united states.