TY - BOOK ID - 78142156 TI - Heartland tobacco war AU - Givel, Michael AU - Spivak, Andrew Lawrence PY - 2013 SN - 0739176927 0739176935 9780739176931 9781299743427 1299743420 9780739176924 9780739184868 PB - Lanham Lexington Books DB - UniCat KW - Tobacco industry KW - Tobacco manufacture and trade KW - Tobacco products industry KW - Plant products industry KW - Law and legislation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78142156 AB - sHeartland Tobacco War chronicles the political and public relations battles between health advocates and forces supported by the tobacco industry in Oklahoma from the 1980s to the present, drawing on previously-suppressed tobacco insider documents and first-hand interviews with key players. The authors especially highlight the role of Oklahoma's "renegade" Department of Health Commissioner, Dr. Leslie Bietsch, in the theoretical contexts of insider and outsider policy advocacy, administrative ethics, and direct democracy.