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Tobacco

Science, policy and public health

9780199566655
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Tobacco:: Science, Policy and Public Health Second Edition comprehensively covers the science and policy issues relevant to one of the major public health disasters of modern times. It pulls together the aetiology and burden of the myriad of tobacco-related diseases with the successes and failures of tobacco control policies. The book looks at lessons learnt to help set health policy for reducing the burden of tobacco-related diseases. It also deals with the internationalpublic health policy issues which bear on control of the problem of tobacco use and which vary between continents.New chapters in this second edition include:: Market manipulation:: How the tobacco industry recruits and retains smokers; In Their Own Words:: An Epoch of Deceit and Deception; Manipulating Product Design to Reinforce Tobacco Addiction; and a new section of the text devoted to Tobacco around the world.The editors are an international group distinguished in the field of tobacco-related diseases, epidemiology, and tobacco control. The contributors are world experts drawn from the various clinical fields. This major reference text gives a unique overview of one of the major public health problems in both the developed and developing world.
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OUP Oxford
84964
9780199566655
9780199566655

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Publication date
2010
Issue number
2
Cover
hard cover
Pages count
776
Dimensions (mm)
174 x 252
Weight (g)
1494
  • Preface; Tobacco: History; Evolution of knowledge of the smoking epidemic; The great studies of smoking and disease in the twentieth century; Dealing with health fears: Cigarette advertising in the United States in the twentieth century; Market manipulation: How the tobacco industry recruits and retains smokers; In Their Own Words: An epoch of deceit and deception; Tobacco: Composition; The changing cigarette: chemical studies and bioassays; Tobacco carcinogenesis: Mechanisms and biomarkers; Nicotine and addiction; Pharmacology of tobacco addiction; Manipulating product design to reinforce tobacco addiction; Nicotine dosing characteristics across products; Tobacco around the world; Tobacco smoking and tobacco-related harm in the European Union with the special attention to the new EU member states; The epidemic in India; The epidemic in China; Tobacco Control in Korea; Tobacco and health. Global burden; The hazards of smoking and the benefits of stopping: Cancer mortality and overall mortality; Passive smoking and health; Adolescent smoking; Tobacco and women; Tobacco and cancer; Cancer of the prostate; Laryngeal cancer; Smoking and cancer of the oesophagus; Tobacco use and cancer of the oral cavity; Smoking and stomach cancer; Tobacco and colorectal cancer; Tobacco and cervical neoplasia; Smoking and pancreatic cancer; Smoking and lung cancer; Active and passive smoking and cancer of the breast; Smoking and ovarian cancer; Smoking, hormone concentrations and ovarian cancer; Tobacco and cardiovascular disease; Tobacco and cardiovascular disease; Tobacco and respiratory disease; Chronic obstructive lung disease; Tobacco and other diseases; Tobacco and alcohol; Interaction of tobacco with other risk factors; Tobacco control: successes and failures; Roles of tobacco litigation in societal change; The adoption of smoke-free policies and their effectiveness; Advancing tobacco control by effective evaluation; Global tobacco policy; Treatment of dependence; Treatment of tobacco dependence; Harm Reduction; Tobacco harm reduction; Advocacy and activism in the real world; Influencing politicians to implement comprehensive tobacco control: the power of news media; Overview of regulatory efforts; Origins and status of the WHO framework convention on tobacco control (WHO FCTC); WHO - Coordinating international policy in tobacco control;
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