The adoption of local ordinances regulating the use or sale of tobacco represents an extraordinary social trend in the United States. Although such laws were virtually unheard of just a decade ago, hundreds of cities and counties across this country have taken aggressive action to control smoking in public settings as well as making it more difficult for minors to obtain tobacco. Major Local Tobacco Control Ordinances in the United States provides clear documentation of the extent to which local com munities are enacting legislation to restrict or severely curtail tobacco use. The monograph...