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Although drinking, smoking and obesity have attracted social and
moral condemnation to varying degrees for more than two hundred
years, over the past few decades they have come under intense
attack from the field of public health as an 'unholy trinity' of
lifestyle behaviours with apparently devastating medical, social
and economic consequences. Indeed, we appear to be in the midst of
an important historical moment in which policies and practices that
would have been unthinkable a decade ago (e.g., outdoor smoking
bans, incarcerating pregnant women for drinking alcohol, and
prohibiting restaurants from serving food to fat people), have
become acceptable responses to the 'risks' that alcohol, tobacco
and obesity are perceived to pose. Hailing from Canada, Australia,
the United Kingdom and the USA, and drawing on examples from all
four countries, contributors interrogate the ways in which alcohol,
tobacco and fat have come to be constructed as 'problems' requiring
intervention and expose the social, cultural and political roots of
the current public health obsession with lifestyle. No prior
collection has set out to provide an in-depth examination of
alcohol, tobacco and obesity through the comparative approach taken
in this volume. This book therefore represents an invaluable and
timely contribution to critical studies of public health, health
inequities, health policy, and the sociology of risk more broadly.
Although drinking, smoking and obesity have attracted social and
moral condemnation to varying degrees for more than two hundred
years, over the past few decades they have come under intense
attack from the field of public health as an 'unholy trinity' of
lifestyle behaviours with apparently devastating medical, social
and economic consequences. Indeed, we appear to be in the midst of
an important historical moment in which policies and practices that
would have been unthinkable a decade ago (e.g., outdoor smoking
bans, incarcerating pregnant women for drinking alcohol, and
prohibiting restaurants from serving food to fat people), have
become acceptable responses to the 'risks' that alcohol, tobacco
and obesity are perceived to pose. Hailing from Canada, Australia,
the United Kingdom and the USA, and drawing on examples from all
four countries, contributors interrogate the ways in which alcohol,
tobacco and fat have come to be constructed as 'problems' requiring
intervention and expose the social, cultural and political roots of
the current public health obsession with lifestyle. No prior
collection has set out to provide an in-depth examination of
alcohol, tobacco and obesity through the comparative approach taken
in this volume. This book therefore represents an invaluable and
timely contribution to critical studies of public health, health
inequities, health policy, and the sociology of risk more broadly.
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