Ending the Tobacco Holocaust: How Big Tobacco is Wrecking Our Health and Finances -- And What We Can Do to Stop Them
Author: Michael Rabinoff
"Every day, at least 1,191 Americans die before their time. They die painful, lingering deaths that could have been prevented. Every three days, as many citizens die from their own smoking habit, or from exposure to second-hand smoke, as died in the Sept. 11 tragedy. Each and every pack of cigarettes costs American taxpayers $40 in higher medical premiums, unavailability of health services, and other hidden financial drains. And every year, 925 out of every 1,000 smokers who try to quit on their own fail to stay smoke-free for a year-while hundreds of thousands of children become addicted to nicotine.
Dr. Michael Rabinoff, a respected psychiatrist who holds two patents and has published repeatedly in the New England Journal of Medicine and other top-flight journals, shows the health and financial suicide we commit by allowing tobacco companies to continue doing business as usual-and, like any good doctor, provides a detailed prescription for what to do about it: simple actions you can take to save the lives of millions around the world."
Publishers Weekly
Almost everyone knows that smoking is bad. But thanks to political lobbies, misinformation campaigns and billions of advertising dollars spent by tobacco companies each year, it is hard to know just how bad. Psychiatrist Rabinoff goes a long way toward clarifying the questions surrounding the number one leading cause of preventable death in the U.S., responsible for about 450,000 deaths here each year. Nonsmokers will likely fume over Big Tobacco's cunning strategies for keeping people addicted—particularly children, who are tomorrow's smokers, after all. Smokers may feel browbeaten by Rabinoff's sometimes hyperbolic writing style. For aspiring nonsmokers, there are reasons to quit on nearly every page, whether political (e.g., collusion between the tobacco and pharmaceutical industries; how cigarettes are pushed to children overseas) or scientific (how cigarettes are chemically altered to heighten addiction, and the causality between smoking and mental illness). The evidence Rabinoff amasses is overwhelming, making this recommended reading for anyone who wants to quit. B&w photos. $25,000 marketing budget.(Mar.)
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California psychiatrist Rabinoff provides a torrent of data and statistics in a passionate attempt to educate the public about the health and economic consequences of tobacco, to inform smokers about successful strategies for quitting, and to expose the devious and deadly machinations of the tobacco industry. Good intentions, however, do not necessarily make for good books. This work reads like a tobacco activist's clipping file, offering little that is original or new. Readers interested in the sins of the tobacco industry would be better served by Richard Kluger's authoritative, Pulitzer Prize-winning Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris, while libraries hoping to help patrons kick the habit should provide more focused titles, such as those produced by the American Lung Association. Recommended only for comprehensive collections.
Create a Reward Plan for Your Child with Asperger Syndrome
Author: John Smith
Reward plans encourage positive behaviour using the incentive of earning rewards. This book provides a thorough nuts-and-bolts guide to creating a reward plan for your child with Asperger Syndrome (AS) to help him or her develop positive behaviours, such as social and communication skills.
John Smith, Jane Donlan and their son Bob, who was diagnosed with AS at age eight, explain the importance of keeping a reward plan positive, specific and challenging enough to be stimulating. Helping your child to learn about positive behaviour while gaining a sense of achievement, a reward plan increases self-esteem, confidence and independence.
Create a Reward Plan for Your Child with Asperger Syndrome is full of advice and practical suggestions for how to tailor a reward plan to meet your child's specific needs.
About the Author:
John Smith is a mental health social worker and father of Bob
About the Author:
Jane Donlan is Bob's mum and is responsible for Bob's home education
About the Author:
Bob Smith is twelve years old and was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome at age eight
Table of Contents:
Introduction 7What is Asperger Syndrome? 11
The Triad of Impairments 12
Other characteristics 17
Positive aspects 18
A final word 19
Bob's comments on Asperger Syndrome 19
Making a Reward Plan 25
Positivity 26
Specificity 28
Giving points 29
Should you involve your child's school in the reward plan? 30
Reviewing the reward plan 31
Number of points 33
What to give points for 34
Rewards 38
Personalizing your child's reward plan record sheets 42
Going over your child's points together 45
Age 45
So, to sum up... 46
The original reward plan 47
The first revision to the reward plan 49
Subsequent revisions to the reward plan 49
Bob's comments on the reward plan 50
Other Techniques to Supplement the Reward Plan 51
Scripts 52
Signs 54
Sketches 60
Bob's comments on the supplementary techniques 67
Combining Techniques 69
Specific Reward Plans 75
The Bedtime Plan 75
Bob's comments on the Bedtime Plan 86
The 'Caring for myself tasks' Plan 86
Bob's comments on the 'Caring for myself tasks' Plan 97
What else might you create a specific reward plan for? 98
Conclusion 99
Looking after yourselves as parents 100
Useful Resources 103
Resources relating to Asperger Syndrome and autism 103
Resources relating to home education 106
Advice on and resources for financial help 108
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