{"id":180,"date":"2020-05-22T21:39:16","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T21:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jacobgrier.com\/blog\/?page_id=180"},"modified":"2023-05-04T20:44:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T20:44:42","slug":"books-by-jacob-grier","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jacobgrier.com\/blog\/books-by-jacob-grier\/","title":{"rendered":"Books by Jacob Grier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The New Prohibition: The Dangerous Politics of Tobacco Control<\/em> (2023) \u2014 WARNING: Prohibition kills. Government prohibition of nicotine and tobacco products is hazardous to public health. Prohibitions are often poorly targeted, encouraging smoking by banning safer alternatives and protecting deadly cigarettes from competition. Prohibition creates illicit markets that lead to unregulated and untaxed products, raids and arrests by law enforcement officers, and incarceration of sellers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are poised at the edge of a new era of nicotine and tobacco prohibition, one that has failed to learn from past policy failures involving drugs and alcohol. This collection of essays explores how illiberal policies, from unjustifiably extensive smoking bans to laws forbidding the sale of flavored e-cigarettes, lead to dangerous unintended consequences. Fortunately, the aim of saving lives lost to smoking is compatible with a more humane approach to nicotine and tobacco use. The New Prohibition<\/em> charts a smarter way forward that encourages harm reduction and respects the rights of consenting adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a new introduction by the author, The New Prohibition<\/em> collects essays previously published in Reason, Slate, Arc Digital, Liberal Currents, and Exponents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Raising the Bar: A Bottle-by-Bottle Guide to Mixing Masterful Cocktails at Home<\/em> (2022 with Brett Adams) \u2014 An accessible guide to building a home bar one bottle at a time, this book gives readers tools for mixing fantastic cocktails without investing time and money in niche single-use ingredients. Instead of drawing on esoteric bottles of liquor, complicated syrups, and obscure sodas, this book takes readers through the home bar bottle by bottle, ensuring that every ingredient is versatile enough to be used to the last drop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Building on a very basic cocktail pantry, each chapter thoughtfully introduces a new bottle and explains how it opens new possibilities for cocktails. Each chapter builds on the one before, so readers never encounter recipes calling for unfamiliar spirits or ingredients. Raising the Bar<\/em> allows readers to set their own pace and maximize the usefulness of the spirits they bring home. This book will be a go-to reference for the home bartender that is practical enough for the day-to-day and special enough for a party. With handsome graphics and a smart focus on what’s already in stock, it’s what home mixologists can turn to when they want creative and delightful drinks without a bar cart full of single-use bottles.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Rediscovery of Tobacco: Smoking, Vaping, and the Creative Destruction of the Cigarette<\/em> (2019) \u2014 The cigarette is the most lethal consumer product in history. The movement to extinguish smoking, however, has become alarmingly illiberal. Smoking bans have spread beyond restaurants and bars to parks, beaches, and sidewalks; rising cigarette taxes rob the wages of society’s least well-off; moral panic threatens smokers’ access to potentially life-saving e-cigarettes; and smokers are discriminated against, stigmatized, and made to feel unwelcome in society. What if there’s a better way? The Rediscovery of Tobacco<\/em> is a moderate manifesto against the extremes of the anti-smoking movement. This contrarian take on smoking makes the case for respecting the choices of consenting adults, acknowledging the genuine pleasures of pipes and cigars, and encouraging an innovative market for lower-risk competitors that will finally end the deadly reign of the cigarette.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Cocktails on Tap: The Art of Mixing Spirits and Beer<\/em> (2015) \u2014 Cocktails on Tap<\/em> brings together two major trends \u2014 craft cocktails and craft beer \u2014 with more than 50 recipes for mixed drinks that feature beer. Beer has become a favorite ingredient for top bartenders around the world, and this book features the best of these contemporary creations alongside vintage classics. Drinks such as the Mai Ta-IPA put a hoppy twist on a favorite tiki cocktail with the addition of India Pale Ale. The Green Devil boosts the powerful Belgian beer Duvel with juniper-forward London dry gin and a rinse of aromatic absinthe. In Cocktails on Tap<\/em>, the vast range of today\u2019s beers \u2014 from basic lagers to roasty stouts and sour Belgian ales \u2014 is explored and tapped as a resource for making an innovative and delicious array of cocktails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Available exclusively on Amazon The New Prohibition: The Dangerous Politics of Tobacco Control (2023) \u2014 WARNING: Prohibition kills. Government prohibition of nicotine and tobacco products is hazardous to public health. Prohibitions are often poorly targeted, encouraging smoking by banning safer alternatives and protecting deadly cigarettes from competition. Prohibition creates illicit markets that lead to unregulated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-180","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-preview"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobgrier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobgrier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobgrier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobgrier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobgrier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobgrier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobgrier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/180\/revisions\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobgrier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}