Faced in the developed world by increasing restrictions on cigarette advertising and sales, and with declining markets, the tobacco transnationals are opening up new markets in developing countries, where they face few controls and little health education. As cigarette sales increase in the...

The notion of substance abuse is highly problematic. There is considerable disagreement amongst 'experts' as to the relative hazards and addictive properties of both legally and illegally available substance. There are also widely divergent sub-cultural attitudes to the harmfulness or benefit of...

Nationalism poses several analytical problems for sociology, since it stands at the intersection of familiar binary conceptual contrasts. It further has the capacity to appear alternatively democratic and violent. This paper examines the conditions for violent nationalism, with particular...

These comments arising from the Macpherson Report are made in the light of our research on racist violence in Greater Manchester. This study, funded by the ESRC as part of the Violence Research Programme, is still in progress and our findings at this stage are tentative. The focus of the study...