LETTER FROM EDITORS [to explain double issue and topical sections] [pdf]

ARTICLES

TOBACCO & OBESITY

Tobacco Consumption in India: A New Look Using Data From the National Sample Survey [pdf]
Indrani Gupta and Deepa Sankar

Commentary: Tobacco Consumption in India [pdf]
Derek Yach

Preventing Illegal Tobacco and Alcohol Sales to Minors Through Electronic Age Verification Devices: A Field Effectiveness Study [pdf]
Brad Krevor, John Capitman, Joanna Cannon, Leslie Oblak, and Mathilda Ruwe

Commentary: A Gadget Can’t Fix What’s Wrong With The Tobacco Distribution System [pdf]
Joseph R. DiFranza

The World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: Implications for Global Epidemics of Food-Related Deaths in Disease [pdf]
Derek Yach, Corinna Hawkes, Amalia Waxman, JoAnne E. Epping-Jordan, Sarah Galbraith, Douglas Bettcher, and Tim Armstrong

Commentary: Lessons from Tobacco Control for the Obesity Control Movement [pdf]
Richard Daynard

MEDICAL CARE

The Future Role of Health Centers in Improving National Health [pdf]
Robert M. Politzer, Ashley H. Schempf, Barbara Starfield, and Leiyu Shi

Commentary: Community Health Centers and the Underserved: Eliminating Disparities or Increasing Despair [pdf]
Gordon Schiff and Claudia Fegan

The Association of Doctor-Patient Race Concordance with Health Services Utilization [pdf]
Thomas A. LaVeist, Amani Nuru-Jeter, and Kiesha E. Jones

Commentary: Are We Ready to Act on Racial Concordance? [pdf]
Sheldon Greenfield

The Waiting List Elite [pdf]
Aldo Mariotto and Giovanni Pilati

Editors’ Note on The Waiting List Elite

GUNS

Grassroots Advocacy for Gun Violence Prevention: A Status Report on Mobilizing a Movement [pdf]
Shannon Frattaroli

The Million Mom March: Engaging the Public on Gun Policy [pdf]
Lawrence Wallack, Liana Winett, Linda Nettekoven

Commentary: The Epidemiology of U.S. Firearm Injuries [pdf]
David Hemenway

OTHER TOPICS

Urban Premature Mortality in the US between 1980 and 1990: Changing Roles of Income Inequality and Social Spending [pdf]
Cynthia R. Ronzio

Where Does the Damp Come From?: Investigations into the Indoor Environment and Respiratory Health in Boston Public Housing [pdf]
H. Patricia Hynes, Doug Brugge, Neal-Dra Osgood, John Snell, Jose Vallarino, John Spengler, Kate Bennett

Empirical Science Meets Moral Panic: An Analysis of the Politics of Needle Exchange [pdf]
David Buchanan, Susan Shaw, Amy Ford, and Merrill Singer

Abstinence-Only Education: How We Got Here and Where We’re Going [pdf]
Karen (Kay) Perrin and Sharon Bernecki DeJoy

BOOK REVIEWS

Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint by Lawrence O. Gostin [pdf]
Reviewed by Wendy Parmet

A Researcher’s Guide to the National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification by David Rose and David J. Pevalin, editors [pdf]
Reviewed by Nancy Krieger

Drug War Heresies: Learning from Other Vices, Times, and Places by Robert J. MacCoun and Peter Reuter [pdf]
Reviewed by David F. Duncan

The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women: Exploding the Estrogen Myth by Barbara Seaman [pdf]
Reviewed by Sheldon Krimsky

Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850-1995 by Ellen S. More [pdf]
Reviewed by Catherine DeLorey

Tobacco Control: Comparative Politics in the United States and Canada by Donley T. Studlar [pdf]
Reviewed by Francis Thompson

African Women’s Health by Meredeth Turshen [pdf]
Reviewed by Julie Cliff

Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution by Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner [pdf]
Reviewed by Anthony Robbins

The New Genetics and the Public’ s Health by Alan Peterson and Robin Bunton [pdf]
Reviewed by Carol Barash

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Letter from Art Cohen

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