Tobacco

Tobacco is ranked as one of the major public health disasters of modern times. This book pulls together the science of tobacco-related diseases with the policy of tobacco control to offer a comprehensive preventive medicine/public health approach.

(Oxford)

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(Oxford)

Preface; TOBACCO: HISTORY; 1. Evolution of knowledge of the smoking epidemic; 2. The great studies of smoking and disease in the twentieth century; 3. Dealing with health fears: Cigarette advertising in the United States in the twentieth century; 4. Market manipulation: How the tobacco industry recruits and retains smokers; 5. In Their Own Words: An epoch of deceit and deception; TOBACCO: COMPOSITION; 6. The changing cigarette: chemical studies and bioassays; 7. Tobacco carcinogenesis: Mechanisms and biomarkers; NICOTINE AND ADDICTION; 8. Pharmacology of tobacco addiction; 9. Manipulating product design to reinforce tobacco addiction; 10. Nicotine dosing characteristics across products; TOBACCO AROUND THE WORLD; 11. Tobacco smoking and tobacco-related harm in the European Union with the special attention to the new EU member states; 12. The epidemic in India; 13. The epidemic in China; 14. Tobacco Control in Korea; TOBACCO AND HEALTH. GLOBAL BURDEN; 15. The hazards of smoking and the benefits of stopping: Cancer mortality and overall mortality; 16. Passive smoking and health; 17. Adolescent smoking; 18. Tobacco and women; TOBACCO AND CANCER; 19. Cancer of the prostate; 20. Laryngeal cancer; 21. Smoking and cancer of the oesophagus; 22. Tobacco use and cancer of the oral cavity; 23. Smoking and stomach cancer; 24. Tobacco and colorectal cancer; 25. Tobacco and cervical neoplasia; 26. Smoking and pancreatic cancer; 27. Smoking and lung cancer; 28. Active and passive smoking and cancer of the breast; 29. Smoking and ovarian cancer; 30. Smoking, hormone concentrations and ovarian cancer; TOBACCO AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; 31. Tobacco and cardiovascular disease; TOBACCO AND RESPIRATORY DISEASE; 32. Chronic obstructive lung disease; 33. Tobacco and other diseases; TOBACCO AND ALCOHOL; 34. Interaction of tobacco with other risk factors; TOBACCO CONTROL: SUCCESSES AND FAILURES; 35. Roles of tobacco litigation in societal change; 36. The adoption of smoke-free policies and their effectiveness; 37. Advancing tobacco control by effective evaluation; 38. Global tobacco policy; TREATMENT OF DEPENDENCE; 39. Treatment of tobacco dependence; HARM REDUCTION; 40. Tobacco harm reduction; ADVOCACY AND ACTIVISM IN THE REAL WORLD; 41. Influencing politicians to implement comprehensive tobacco control: the power of news media; OVERVIEW OF REGULATORY EFFORTS; 42. Origins and status of the WHO framework convention on tobacco control (WHO FCTC); 43. WHO - Coordinating international policy in tobacco control

(Oxford)